Queen Victoria Quotes Proverbs, and Aphorisms
- May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901
- British
- Queen of the United Kingdom, Empress of India
Queen Victoria reigned over the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901, marking the longest reign of any British monarch at the time and defining the Victorian era. Her rule oversaw a period of unprecedented industrial, scientific, and cultural growth, as well as the expansion of the British Empire to its height. Victoria became a symbol of stability, morality, and national pride, especially after the loss of her husband, Prince Albert, when she adopted a somber and devoted public image. Though celebrated for embodying the values of her age, she also faced criticism for being detached from the hardships of colonial subjects and the working class. Her legacy remains central to British history and the transformation of modern monarchy.
- “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.”
- “Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.”
- “We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”
- “I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.”
- “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.”
- “The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.”
- “Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.”
- “An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.”
- “I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.”
- “I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.”
- “I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.”
- “A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.”
- “Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.”
- “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.”
- “Everybody grows but me.”