A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
QUEEN VICTORIABeing married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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Everybody grows but me.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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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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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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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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