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 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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Everybody grows but me.
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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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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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