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 VICTORIAI 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 VICTORIAShe was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
QUEEN VICTORIANothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
QUEEN VICTORIAThat Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
QUEEN VICTORIAYou 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.
QUEEN VICTORIAI don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIAI think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
QUEEN VICTORIAI 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.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
QUEEN VICTORIAHe speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIANo civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
QUEEN VICTORIABeing married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIABeware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIAGreat events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIAFor 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.
QUEEN VICTORIA