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!
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!
QUEEN VICTORIAJust close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIANo civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
QUEEN VICTORIAI 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 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.
QUEEN VICTORIABeing pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIABeware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIAWere 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.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIAI don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIABring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
QUEEN VICTORIAOh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIAFor 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.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIAHis 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!
QUEEN VICTORIANothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
QUEEN VICTORIA