Just close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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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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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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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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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 married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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