Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe 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!
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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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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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 don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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 are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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