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Queen Victoria
British
Royalty
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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.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
#Queen
#Rights
#Folly
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
#Possibilities
#Defeat
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
#Artists
#Intimacy
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,
British
Royalty
#People
#Poor
#Woman
#Happiness
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
#Babies
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,
British
Royalty
#Man
#Women
Everybody grows but me.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
#Wife
#Being
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
#Nothing
#Being
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,
British
Royalty
#Wife
#State
#Marriage
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
#Baby
#Ugly
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
#Act
#Marriage
#Amusement
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria,
British
Royalty
#Quiet
#Events
#Trifles
#Nerves