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.
QUEEN VICTORIAWhen 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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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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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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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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