88 result(s) for Queen Victoria Quotes.
"I am very happy when all my subjects are happy."
"It is difficult to decide on the right course, and harder still to follow it."
"I can see in a man's eye if he is to be trusted."
"It is better to be unhappy rather than have only fake happiness."
"Next to the love of one's own mother, the love of a rum-LOVING WIFE best ensures happiness."
"By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
"Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous."
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"There is no one to depend on left now, but him. And there he sits, warming his knees, and thinking of nothing but his dinner! You all think that I am so severe, but you don't know what I have to put up with!"
"I believe truth is the best and most powerful thing in the world; that's why I will stick to it, and won't say anything but what I think."
"Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my duty."
"I don't understand sketching...but I fell in love with modeling."
"If I had married a sailor, I should have been an admiral's wife. As it is, I am so thankful that I am only married to the sovereign."
"As the dew is dried up by the morning sun, so are the sins of mankind by the sight of the Himalaya."
"I am most anxious for peace. I simply cannot run any risk. I do not want to desert my holiest duty."
"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."
"I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety."
"It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever."
"I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all."
"Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfill my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real goodwill and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have."
"They all expect me to do as other Sovereigns have done, to employ 100 cooks, fishmongers, grocers, etc. But I can't. I promised to reduce the expenses of the Civil List and I must keep my word."
"All marriage ceremonies, all over the world, through all time, have been ceremonies of innocent gayety."
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"It is my anxious wish to do everything in my power to contribute to the welfare and happiness of my subjects, and to render the people of this great country easy, contented, and happy."
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
"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."
"I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil."
"It's very unkind to suggest that I have no sense of humour."
"Knowledge is the key to success in life."
"Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real goodwill and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have."
"There's just one advice I have for you - Don't talk about yourself, and don't talk about your own affairs. This is a good quality."
"I am not quite well; haven't been for some days."
"Ladies, on the whole, are alright, but people like Lucy are more than alright."
"We must not be temperamental, as we are the fathers of most of the harm done in this world."
"To appear to be the saddest of women is a veritable pain in itself."
"Variety is the mother of enjoyment in the sights of the world."
"Only do not surrender, unless the circumstances necessitate it, or death must ensue."
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"The last thing we want to do is make enemies, especially of relatively nice people."
"There may be President MacKinley and Mrs. MacKinley, but there is only one person in all the world like my own Thistle-Down."
"I have more than 17 ways of utilizing an outdoor space."
"In mitigation of the morning call system, it looks very cheerful to see men in the hall."
"What is beyond dispute is that myself, my house and my family are entirely happy."
"My birthday makes me busy with telegrams and letters."
"Here are a few sincere and heartfelt words of greeting."
"They are gens irréguliers and can't get along at all."
"An ugly and frightful surprise, which might have turned out much worse."
"All of this is the fruit of my own tree, and so it is admirable."
"I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety."
"An ugly baby is a very nasty object, and the prettiest is frightful when undressed."
"It is my positive belief that this country would be infinitely more prosperous without the Colonies than with them. They cost us enormous sums, and we are in constant difficulties about them."
"It is well known that the English court is the best and most strictly kept court of all courts in Europe... There is such inexpressible propriety in all that the English do, and such an attention to cleanliness and all its minutest articles in their houses, gardens, and even their servants, that no one is under the least necessity of ever finding fault with them on these points."
"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting."
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
"My heart is broken."
"I am very happy, and I am having a wonderful time."
"Give my people a picture of home and me as keeping house together -- a soldier's wife and sapper's daughter -- owning patience; loyalty, marrying against us!"
"We have been threatened with many dangers, but each time we have had the good fortune to escape."
"She was the most beautiful child I have ever seen, and showed every sign of her becoming more beautiful as she grew older."
"I was at once satisfied with my first impression, that he was a splendid specimen of manly beauty."
"It is my inmost conviction that any God who smites innocent women and children cannot be a God."
"I am very happy and contented; but the difficulty in filling my place with the proper dignity is that I am only the resident and hostess."
"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not."
"An ugly baby is a very nasty object—and the prettiest is frightful when undressed."
"Dignity is the innate right to respect."
"I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones [are] rather disgusting."
"Life is very precious and I feel that I must not waste it."
"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt."
"There is no one more clever than me."
"I would advise you to keep your eyes open, to be awake to everything, to see and to hear whatever is going on around you."
"I will be good and do good in every way I can."
"We will not have failure, only success and new learning."
"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them."
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist."
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
"We are not amused."
"I am very fond of men, and I think they are very good."
"Beware of artists; they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous."
"It is curious how clearly I see my mistakes when I hear them spoken by another person."
"They might say that I couldn’t sing, but they can’t say I didn’t sing."
"It is very strange, but not the less true, that my poor water-colors are being exhibited along with the works of the greatest artists of the present day."
"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous."
"It is very grand and somewhat impersonal and can be taken by people who need to view art with less sentimentality."
"In former times, the great artists never dreamed of going to artists’ balls or associating with lesser men."
"Above all things, cling to your husband; for then will you be happy, and then too will you prove a great blessing to your husband."
"Indeed, it is impossible to describe how many delightful discoveries were made."
"These water-color sketches were painted in the room, from the windows of which I have had this delightful view."
"This is the pleasantest part of life."
"I am very glad he is gone, as I admire his talents greatly."
"It is intensely interesting, the insights one gains in this way, or rather one would gain, if one had time for it."
"The presence of the large dinner plate, ready set before me, paralyses my invention."
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