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Queen Victoria

Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Marriage Oneself
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Act Love Marriage
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Goodness Woman
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Courage Man Thinking Women
[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Sex Woman
Just close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Eyes Thinking Yourself
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Alcohol Myself People Revolution
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Artist Danger Myself
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Myself Politics Talk
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Important Myself Thinking
Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Blessing Grateful Myself Woman
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Relationship Time
I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Baby Thinking Young
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Artist Class Danger
Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Home Men Quick
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Character Charity Civilization God
An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Beautiful Children Ugly
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Anger Right Women
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Girl Marriage Thinking Wife Young
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Alcohol Drinking Impossible Practice
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Calm Event Myself Peace
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Book God Happiness Knowledge True
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Pregnant Wife
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Myself Pregnant Thinking
That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
QUEEN VICTORIA

Book Religious
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Doubt Happiness Marriage Poor Thinking
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Feeling Girl Marriage Women

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