Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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I 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.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIA