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 VICTORIAAffairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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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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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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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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Everybody grows but me.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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 would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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