76 Quotes by Queen Victoria

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

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.

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent . . .