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 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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
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Everybody grows but me.
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You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment – their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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 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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