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!
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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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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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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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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 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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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 feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Everybody grows but me.
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