The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIABring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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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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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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 would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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 don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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