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 VICTORIAI 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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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.
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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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