We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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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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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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