Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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It seems to me a defect in our much famed Constitution, to have to part with an admirable Govt like Ld Salisbury's for no question of any importance or any particular reason, merely on account of the number of votes.
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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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I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors... Were women to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
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Everybody grows but me.
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I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
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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 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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The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
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Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
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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.
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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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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.
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Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .