The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIAWere 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.
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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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