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!
QUEEN VICTORIAThat Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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Everybody grows but me.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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