I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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 are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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 same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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