Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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 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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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Were women to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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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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The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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