A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe will not have failure – only success and new learning.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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 think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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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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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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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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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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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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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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