Quotes by Queen Victoria

“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”

“The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.”

“Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.”

“Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.”

“Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. Gods will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.”

“I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.”

“We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us, loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe, yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!”

“I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.”

“I dont dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.”

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

“The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of Womens Rights. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.”

“Everybody grows but me.”

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

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

“How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.”

“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”

“Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others; dont (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .”

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

“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.”

“A strange, horrible business, but I suppose good enough for Shakespeares day.”