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[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
Queen VictoriaAffairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
Queen VictoriaThe poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.
Queen Victoria