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.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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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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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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