We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIANothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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!
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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Were 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.
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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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When 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.
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I 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.
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