[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIAJust close your eyes—and think of England.
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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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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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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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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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Everybody grows but me.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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 important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of 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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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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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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