A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Were women to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl – and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
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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.
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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