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 VICTORIAI don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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 don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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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 feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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