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.
QUEEN VICTORIAYou 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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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 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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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 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 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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Everybody grows but me.
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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 important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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