Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
QUEEN VICTORIAGive my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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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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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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[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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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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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