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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria -
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
Queen Victoria
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Queen Victoria -
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Queen Victoria -
It seems to me a defect in our much famed Constitution, to have to part with an admirable Govt like Ld Salisbury's for no question of any importance or any particular reason, merely on account of the number of votes.
Queen Victoria -
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria -
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.
Queen Victoria -
Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
Queen Victoria
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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.
Queen Victoria -
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
Queen Victoria -
I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors... 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 -
What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic
Queen Victoria -
Everybody grows but me.
Queen Victoria -
I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
Queen Victoria
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
Queen Victoria -
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
Queen Victoria -
[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
Queen Victoria -
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
Queen Victoria -
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.
Queen Victoria -
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
Queen Victoria
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria -
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.
Queen Victoria -
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 -
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
Queen Victoria