We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIABring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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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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