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 VICTORIAShe was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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 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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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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