Just close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIAI 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.
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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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 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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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