He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIAJust close your eyes—and think of England.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Everybody grows but me.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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