We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
QUEEN VICTORIAHis 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!
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Everybody grows but me.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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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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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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