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.
QUEEN VICTORIAGive my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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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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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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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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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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