I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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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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