Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIANo civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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