Queen Victoria quotes
Born
24 May 1819 Kensington Palace, London.
Died
22 January 1901.
Occupation
Queen.
Queen Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III.
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
– Queen Victoria
Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
– Queen Victoria
Everybody grows but me.
– Queen Victoria
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
– Queen Victoria
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
– Queen Victoria
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
– Queen Victoria
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
– Queen Victoria
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
– Queen Victoria
Were women to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
– Queen Victoria
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
– Queen Victoria
I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.
– Queen Victoria
I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
– Queen Victoria
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
– Queen Victoria
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
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature… and so full of tricks.
– Queen Victoria
We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
– Queen Victoria
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
– Queen Victoria
An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
– Queen Victoria
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
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
I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
– Queen Victoria
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
– Queen Victoria
Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
– 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
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
– Queen Victoria
Just close your eyes—and think of England.
– Queen Victoria