I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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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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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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Everybody grows but me.
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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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