[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
QUEEN VICTORIA
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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.
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That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment – their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
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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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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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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 same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIA