The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIAI don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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