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Queen Victoria

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Doubt Happiness Marriage Poor Thinking
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Calm Event Myself Peace
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Goodness Hate Love Peace Quiet Woman
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Equality Hate Man Protection Sex Woman
Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Home Men Quick
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Pregnant Wife
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Beautiful Dog
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Book God Happiness Knowledge True
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Animal Humanity Practice
I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Baby Thinking Young
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Feeling Girl Marriage Women
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Alcohol Drinking Impossible Practice
That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
QUEEN VICTORIA

Book Religious
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

Goodness Woman
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Artist Danger Myself
Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Marriage Oneself

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