Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Everybody grows but me.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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