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.
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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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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 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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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