[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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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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