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 don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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