I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Everybody grows but me.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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