Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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Everybody grows but me.
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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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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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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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 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.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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