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 VICTORIAI 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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 married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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