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.
QUEEN VICTORIAHe speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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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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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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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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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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