I dont dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. – Queen Victoria
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 cant deny is the penalty of marriage. – Queen Victoria
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
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. – Queen Victoria
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey