A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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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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