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.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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Everybody grows but me.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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