I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
QUEEN VICTORIANothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
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