Quotes by Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria

Queen of Great Britain

Lived from: 1819 - 1901

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  • A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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  • Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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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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  • He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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  • 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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  • I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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  • 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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  • Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
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  • The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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  • The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ''Woman's Rights'' with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
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  • We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
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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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What are the most famous quotes from Queen Victoria?

The two most famous quotes from Queen Victoria are:

  • "A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
  • "Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."

When did Queen Victoria live?

Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and died in the year 1901.