We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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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 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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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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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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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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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