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 VICTORIAI 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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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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That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Everybody grows but me.
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