No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
QUEEN VICTORIAI think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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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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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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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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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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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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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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