Just close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIAJust close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIAWhen 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.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
QUEEN VICTORIAGreat events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIANothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
QUEEN VICTORIABeing pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIABeing married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIAGive my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
QUEEN VICTORIAI 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.
QUEEN VICTORIABring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
QUEEN VICTORIAI feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIAThat Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
QUEEN VICTORIAWe poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA