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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

Queen Victoria

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
We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Failure Learning Motivational Success
Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Home Men Quick
That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
QUEEN VICTORIA

Book Religious
[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
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!
QUEEN VICTORIA

Danger Greatness Man Wild
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
We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Destiny Men Suffering
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Calm Event Myself Peace
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Children Disappointment Grow Up Parents
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Pregnant Wife
Just close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Eyes Thinking Yourself
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
Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Blessing Grateful Myself Woman
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Act Love Marriage
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
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
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA

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

Artist Class Danger
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
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Animal Humanity Practice
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
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

Goodness Hate Love Peace Quiet Woman
[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIA

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

Marriage Oneself

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