The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIAJust close your eyes—and think of England.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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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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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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