Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIAI feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Everybody grows but me.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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