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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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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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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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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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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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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