I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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Everybody grows but me.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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