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Queen Victoria
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“Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“[Complaining about Prime Minister Gladstone:] He speaks to me as if I was a public meeting.”
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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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“We are not amused!”
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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 ... It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.”
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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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“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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“[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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“An ugly baby is a very nasty object — and the prettiest is frightful when undressed.”
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“[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.”
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“The important thing is not what they think of me, it is what I think of them.”
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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, English queen
(1819 - 1901)
Full name: Alexandrina Victoria.