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 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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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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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 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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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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Everybody grows but me.
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