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.
QUEEN VICTORIAAn ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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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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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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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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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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