That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy 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 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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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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