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!
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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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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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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Everybody grows but me.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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