We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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 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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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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.
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