He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIABeing pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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Everybody grows but me.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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.
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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.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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