Queen Victoria Quotes

A collection of quotes by Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria was the longest-reigning monarch in the history of the United Kingdom. She was born on May 24, 1819, in Kensington Palace, London. Victoria became queen at the age of 18, following the death of her uncle, William IV, in 1837. Her reign, known as the Victorian era, lasted for over 63 years until her death on January 22, 1901.

During Queen Victoria's reign, the United Kingdom underwent significant political, social, and industrial changes. Her reign witnessed the height of the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of the British Empire, and numerous advancements in science and technology. Victoria's reign was also characterized by various social reforms and cultural shifts.

The queen married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. They had nine children together, and their harmonious and loving marriage became an influential symbol for the Victorian era. However, Prince Albert's untimely death in 1861 plunged Queen Victoria into deep mourning, and she remained widowed for the rest of her life.

Though initially reticent and shy, Queen Victoria grew in popularity and became an influential figure during her reign. Her reign marked a period of immense change and progress, shaping the United Kingdom and leaving a lasting impact on society as a whole. Queen Victoria's death in 1901 marked the end of an era, as the world bid farewell to a monarch who had witnessed and guided the transformation of her kingdom.

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look

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.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lotte

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

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children -- for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him -- and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it

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.

Mother

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well

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.

Men & Women

We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus,

We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us -- loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe -- yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!

Remembrance

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be

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.

Royalty Kings

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rathe

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

Baby Babies

I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite

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.

Birth

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can

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

Marriage

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Politics

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they d

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

Loss

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

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

Opinion

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this p

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!

Marriage

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a

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

Marriage

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of S

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.

Father

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak o

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.

Women

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look a

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.

Marriage

I think people really marry far too much it is such a lotter

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

Happiness