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 VICTORIAWe will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
QUEEN VICTORIA