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!
QUEEN VICTORIAWe will not have failure – only success and new learning.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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 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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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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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 poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
QUEEN VICTORIA