Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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 feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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 are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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!
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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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