Just close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe will not have failure – only success and new learning.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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 don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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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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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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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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