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 VICTORIA[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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When 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.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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