A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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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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