We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Everybody grows but me.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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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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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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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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