I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
QUEEN VICTORIAAn ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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