Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
QUEEN VICTORIABeing married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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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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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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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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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Everybody grows but me.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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