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.
QUEEN VICTORIABeware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
QUEEN VICTORIA