That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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Everybody grows but me.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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