Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
QUEEN VICTORIABeing pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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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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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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