Queen Victoria Quotes

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

Great, Calm, Quiet

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

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
Queen Victoria

Wife, Pregnant, Hazard

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
Queen Victoria

Girl, She, Sure

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Queen Victoria

Defeat, Interested, Exist

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Queen Victoria

Great, Against, 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.
Queen Victoria

Marriage, Happy, Girl

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.
Queen Victoria

Women, Else, Everyone

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
Queen Victoria

Young, Rather, Though

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria

Marriage, Sad, Act

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
Queen Victoria

Nothing, Else, Married

Everybody grows but me.
Queen Victoria

Everybody, Grows

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
Queen Victoria

Ugly, Baby, Nasty

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria

Happiness, Woman, After

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.
Queen Victoria

Women, Cannot, Mad

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Biography

Nationality: British

Born: May 24, 1819

Died: January 22, 1901

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