"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
― Queen Victoria
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Great
More From Queen Victoria
- "A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
- "I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."
- "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."
More In Great
- "A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."― Bertrand Russell
- "Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"― Leonardo da Vinci
- "At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour."― Lucy Powell