Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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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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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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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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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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.
QUEEN VICTORIA