[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
QUEEN VICTORIAI would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIAEverybody grows but me.
QUEEN VICTORIAJust close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIAShe was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIABeware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIAA marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
QUEEN VICTORIAWhen I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl – and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
QUEEN VICTORIAWere women to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
QUEEN VICTORIAThat Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
QUEEN VICTORIAWe will not have failure – only success and new learning.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe 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.
QUEEN VICTORIAI feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIAOh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIA