I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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The 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!
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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Everybody grows but me.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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