Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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 feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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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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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 positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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