Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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