Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIAWhen 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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