We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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 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 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 would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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