Queen Victoria Quotes - Page 2

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• I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

  Queen Victoria

  Artist, Seductive, Littles

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• An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

  Queen Victoria

  Baby, Ugly, Nasty

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Sex, Writing

  Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870

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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.

  Queen Victoria

  Good Woman, Reign, Royalty

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• 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.

  Queen Victoria

  Children, Parent, Lessons

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• Oh, that peace may come.

  Queen Victoria

  Peace, May

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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.

  Queen Victoria

  Happiness, Marriage, Thinking

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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.

  Queen Victoria

  Children, Growing Up, Disappointment

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• Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

  Queen Victoria

  Water, Hot, Goes On

  Queen Victoria's letter to King of the Belgians, Nuneham, June 15, 1841.

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• Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.

  Queen Victoria

  Blessed

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• 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.

  Queen Victoria

  Women, Thinking, Wicked

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• He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

  Queen Victoria

  Politics, Speak, Politician

  In G. W. E. Russell 'Collections and Recollections' (1898) ch. 14

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• [To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Speaking Up, Bishops

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• [On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.

  Queen Victoria

  Sex

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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.

  Queen Victoria

  Marriage, Girl, Thinking

  "Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal Previously Unpublished" edited by Roger Fulfold, (p. 254), 1964.

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• We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us - loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe - yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!

  Queen Victoria

  Love, Feet, Suffering

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• 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.

  Queen Victoria

  Selfish, Men, Doctors

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• The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

  Queen Victoria

  Life, Country, Baby

  Queen Victoria, Victoria Victoria, A. C. Benson (2014). “The Letters of Queen Victoria”, p.602, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Animal, Practice

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• [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

  Queen Victoria

  Drinking, Practice, Alcohol

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• Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

  Queen Victoria

  Culinary

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• 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.

  Queen Victoria

  Christian, Country, Queens

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• The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Thinking, Russia

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• 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.

  Queen Victoria

  People, Aberdeen, Hills

  Queen Victoria, Arthur Helps (2010). “Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Queen Victoria

  Children, Women, Thinking

  Queen Victoria, Victoria Victoria, A. C. Benson (2014). “The Letters of Queen Victoria”, p.321, Cambridge University Press

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