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.
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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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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[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 will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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 don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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