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 VICTORIAThe important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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