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.
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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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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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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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