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.
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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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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 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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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