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 VICTORIAI feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
-
-
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 -
Just close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
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 -
I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
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 VICTORIA -
An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIA