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• Queen Victoria:

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

• Queen Victoria:

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

• Queen Victoria:

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

• Queen Victoria:

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

• Queen Victoria:

  For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse

• Queen Victoria:

  When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife

• Quentin Blake:

  Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don'

• Quentin Blake:

  I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, o

• Quentin Blake:

  I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

• Quentin Blake:

  I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.