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.
QUEEN VICTORIAA marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Just close your eyes—and think 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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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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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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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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