I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIAI 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
-
-
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
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 VICTORIA -
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 VICTORIA -
Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
QUEEN VICTORIA -
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
QUEEN VICTORIA -
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
QUEEN VICTORIA