[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIAI think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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