Queen Victoria Short Quotes

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He [William Gladstone] speaks to me as if I was a public meeting.

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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

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I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

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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.

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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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Let me never hear the world 'trouble.' Only tell me how the thing is to be done, to be done rightly, and I will do it if I can.

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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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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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To A.J. Balfour:
Please understand that there is no one depressed in this house. We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

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I fear the seventh granddaughter and fourteenth grandchild becomes a very uninteresting thing—for it seems to me to go on like the rabbits in Windsor Park!

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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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To try and find out the reason for everything is very dangerous and leads to nothing but disappointment and dissatisfaction, unsettling your mind and in the end making you miserable.

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