Queen Victoria Quotes
20 quotes from Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom for 63 years during the height of the British Empire..
“The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.”
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”
“I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.”
“A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.”
“Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.”
“Everybody grows but me.”
“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.”
“Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.”
“I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.”
“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.”
“I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.”
“Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.”
“I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country. I am very young and perhaps in many, although not all, 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.”
“What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine, dear, but I own I cannot enter into that; I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments; when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic.”
“I really cannot say how proud I feel to be the Queen of such a Nation.”
“This awful responsibility is imposed upon me so suddenly and at so early a period of my Life, that I should feel myself utterly oppressed by the burthen, were I not sustained by the hope that Divine Providence, which has called me to this work, will give me strength for the performance of it.”
“Albert really is quite charming, and so excessively handsome... a beautiful figure, broad in the shoulders and a fine waist; my heart is quite going.”
“The Queen of England will not submit to such trickery.”
“It is worth being shot at to learn how much one is loved.”
“The motion was very slight, and much easier than a carriage — also no dust or great heat.”
