No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
QUEEN VICTORIAAn ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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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 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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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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