That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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[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 feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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.
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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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