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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria
Age: 81 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 24
Died: 1901
Died: January 22
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Monarch
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Nottingham House
Alexandrina Hanover
Victoria Hanover
Victoria Alexandrina
Princess Victoria
Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India Victoria
regina di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda Victoria
koningin van Groot-Brittannie͏̈ en Ierland Victoria
Queen of Great Britain Victoria
reine de Grande-Bretagne Victoria
Victoria of the United Kingdom
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
Queen Victoria
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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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 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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
Queen Victoria
Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria
[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
Queen Victoria
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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We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
Queen Victoria
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
[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
Queen Victoria
