I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIAI would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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 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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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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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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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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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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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Everybody grows but me.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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