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 VICTORIA[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
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You 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.
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I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
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That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Everybody grows but me.
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