Queen Victoria Quotes

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

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.

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

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

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

Just close your eyes—and think of England.

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

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.

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

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.

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.

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.

She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks.

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

Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

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

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

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

Oh, that peace may come.

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

Everybody grows but me.

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

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

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

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

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

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

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.

She knew all about love—that beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey.

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