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 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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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.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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