That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
QUEEN VICTORIAI 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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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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Everybody grows but me.
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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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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