Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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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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When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl – and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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 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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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 don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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