We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
QUEEN VICTORIABeing pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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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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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!
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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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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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.
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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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