[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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!
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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