We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
QUEEN VICTORIAAffairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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 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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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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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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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