Quotes by Queen Victoria
We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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.
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.
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks.
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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.
Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .
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.
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.