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 VICTORIABeing married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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 alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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Everybody grows but me.
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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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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