[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIAHe speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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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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