Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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!
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment – their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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