I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIAA marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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