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!
QUEEN VICTORIAAn ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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 would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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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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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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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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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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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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