A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
QUEEN VICTORIAGreat events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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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 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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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