His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
QUEEN VICTORIAHis purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
QUEEN VICTORIAI don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIAA marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe will not have failure – only success and new learning.
QUEEN VICTORIAYou will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment – their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIAAffairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
QUEEN VICTORIAOh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
QUEEN VICTORIAJust close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIAI feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIAI am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
QUEEN VICTORIANo civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
QUEEN VICTORIA