Top 45 Queen Victoria Quotes
#1. Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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#2. Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner ...
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#3. 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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#4. The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.
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#6. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
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#8. 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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#9. Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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#10. Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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#12. 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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#14. [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ...
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#15. A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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#16. Then, dear Mamma, I hope you will grant me the first request I make to you, as Queen. Let me be by myself for an hour.
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#17. Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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#18. Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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#19. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.
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#24. I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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#25. 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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#26. We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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#27. She was such a beautiful and sweet creature ... and so full of tricks.
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#28. When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
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#29. I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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#30. Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
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#31. What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic
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#32. 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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#33. The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.
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#35. Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.
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#36. 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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#38. 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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#39. For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
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#40. [To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
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#41. It's not what they think of me that matters - but what I think of them.
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#42. There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection ... It must really not be permitted. It is a disgrace to a civilized country.
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#43. I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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#44. 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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#45. 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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