The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIAWere 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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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 feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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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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[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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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