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.
QUEEN VICTORIAOh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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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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 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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Everybody grows but me.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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You 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.
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