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.
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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl – and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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 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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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