Queen Victoria Quotes

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.

We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

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.

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.