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 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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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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