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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Queen Victoria

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Animal Humanity Practice
I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Baby Thinking Young
Just close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Eyes Thinking Yourself
Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Blessing Grateful Myself Woman
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 VICTORIA

Goodness Woman
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Myself Pregnant Thinking
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Feeling Girl Marriage Women
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Book God Happiness Knowledge True
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!
QUEEN VICTORIA

Danger Greatness Man Wild
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Doubt Happiness Marriage Poor Thinking
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Pregnant Wife
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Relationship Time
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Children Disappointment Grow Up Parents
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Defeat Existence Inspirational Leadership Life Win
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 VICTORIA

Girl Marriage Thinking Wife Young
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Important Myself Thinking
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Calm Event Myself Peace
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Beautiful Dog
An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Beautiful Children Ugly
Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
QUEEN VICTORIA

Cup Instagram Captions Tea
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Goodness Hate Love Peace Quiet Woman
Everybody grows but me.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Growth Myself One Liner
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Artist Danger Myself
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Act Love Marriage
[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Sex Woman
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Courage Man Thinking Women
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Alcohol Myself People Revolution

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