[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIA
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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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Everybody grows but me.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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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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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
QUEEN VICTORIA