His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
QUEEN VICTORIAI think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Everybody grows but me.
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That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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