Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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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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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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