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.
QUEEN VICTORIAAn ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of 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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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