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 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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[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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy 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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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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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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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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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