Top 100 Queen Victoria's Quotes
#1. I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter. Close your eyes and think of England.
Margaret Atwood
#2. I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.
Emily Blunt
#3. The monarchy, as Lord Esher, adviser to Edward VII and editor of Queen Victoria's early letters and journals, would later say, was exchanging 'authority' for 'influence'.3
A. N. Wilson
#4. Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during the revolt of 1857. Even after she was defeated she defied Queen Victoria's famous Proclamation and issued a counter Proclamation ...
Qurratulain Hyder
#5. 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
#6. I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.
John Fowles
#9. My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
A. N. Wilson
#10. Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.
E.F. Benson
#11. I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.
Victoria Hanley
#12. She was such a beautiful and sweet creature ... and so full of tricks.
Queen Victoria
#13. Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
E.F. Benson
#14. You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
Zubin Mehta
#15. I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.
Martha Stewart
#16. We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
Queen Victoria
#17. Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.
Lady Gregory
#19. That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
Queen Victoria
#20. I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Queen Victoria
#21. Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.
Queen Victoria
#22. 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.
Queen Victoria
#23. It's to bad we didn't stay longer", I murmur, looking out at the river. "I would have liked to die close to home.
Victoria Aveyard
#24. 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
#25. I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
Victoria Aveyard
#26. You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.
Victoria Aveyard
#27. A little politeness might smooth the way ahead. Knowing it was his turn to be dispatched, the best he could hope for was as swift a death as the one Massetti had so thanklessly received.
Victoria Lamb
#28. Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, had a lamp shade on her head. Again.
Y.S. Lee
#29. The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.
Queen Victoria
#30. There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.
Geoffrey Rush
#31. It's not what they think of me that matters - but what I think of them.
Queen Victoria
#32. I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.
Christina Dodd
#33. But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.
Jean Plaidy
#34. [To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
Queen Victoria
#35. She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.
Victoria Aveyard
#36. Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
V.S. Pritchett
#37. No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
Queen Victoria
#38. Farewell best beloved, here at last I shall rest with thee, with thee in Christ I shall rise again'.(written on Prince Albert's and Queen Victorias's mausoleum)
Victoria Magazine
#39. They trained me for this. It's their own fault. They helped make their own doom.
Victoria Aveyard
#40. Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.
J. Christopher Herold
#41. I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
Victoria Aveyard
#42. She's like an earthquake in tiny human form, breaking apart anything and everything in her way.
Victoria Aveyard
#43. Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
A. N. Wilson
#44. One full wall was given over to Father's stamp albums, fat leather volumes whose colors indicated the reign of each monarch: black for Queen Victoria, red for Edward the Seventh, green for George the Fifth, and blue for our present monarch, George the Sixth.
Alan Bradley
#45. Victoria was, at the time, far more empathetic and forgiving, chiding Albert for his narrow view of humanity. 'I always think that one ought always to be indulgent towards other people, as I always think, if we had not been well brought up and well taken care of, we might also have gone astray.
Leslie Carroll
#46. Victoria had the discipline of being a queen to help her through the biggest trial of her life - when she lost Albert and faltered. I've had the discipline of the theatre to help me over the ups and downs. A wonderful life . Go it old girl. You've done it well.
Helen Hayes
#47. Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.
Ronald Knox
#48. 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
Queen Victoria
#49. Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.
Ray Davies
#50. 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.
Queen Victoria
#51. I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
Victoria Aveyard
#52. I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
Queen Victoria
#53. He is a prince and, worst of all, the queen's son. I didn't want to trust him before this very reason, for the secrets he kept hidden. Or maybe this is what he was hiding all along...his own heart.
Victoria Aveyard
#55. A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria
#56. [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ...
Queen Victoria
#57. More than husband and consort, Albert was everything to Victoria, and Osborne was unthinkable without him.
Sarah Ferguson
#58. In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.
Kerry Greenwood
#60. 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 ...
Queen Victoria
#62. I felt quite a responsibility when I played Elizabeth I but nobody here remembers her! And then I felt a responsibility when I played Queen Victoria but not many people remember her.
Judi Dench
#63. Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
Queen Victoria
#64. Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
Queen Victoria
#65. Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.
George Bernard Shaw
#66. I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
Victoria Aveyard
#67. The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
Queen Victoria
#69. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen Victoria
#70. Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic.
Thomm Quackenbush
#72. The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.
Queen Victoria
#73. 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.
Queen Victoria
#74. 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 ...
Queen Victoria
#75. Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
Queen Victoria
#76. They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.
Victoria Aveyard
#77. As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.
Victoria Aveyard
#79. Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
Victoria Magazine
#81. Make no mistake, my girl," he finally breathes. "You are playing the game as someone's pawn.
Victoria Aveyard
#82. You were looking for me?
Victoria wondered if she would be red for the rest of her life. Yes.
Isn't that something. Perfect ice queen Victoria looking for skunkish old me.
Claire Legrand
#83. Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry.
Eddie Izzard
#84. Oh! It is dreadful...that one is almost always separated from those ones loves dearly and is encumbered with those one dislikes. -Queen Victoria
Cecil Woodham-Smith
#85. You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
Queen Victoria
#86. If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
Oscar Wilde
#87. The truth doesn't matter. It only matters what the people believe.
Victoria Aveyard
#88. Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
Queen Victoria
#89. I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
Kate Williams
#90. It is interesting to note that most kings, queens or princes/princesses of the British Empire and Europe were born either on a new moon day or a full moon day! That includes Queen Victoria and even the current Prince William and his consort Kate Middleton.
Greenstone Lobo
#91. He felt as if he'd woken up, weak and confused, only to be told that he'd spent the last three weeks in bed with a fever
and that during his illness, Queen Victoria had abdicated the throne and run off with a lion-tamer from Birmingham. The world seemed an entirely different place.
Courtney Milan
#92. Then there's Queen Victoria, like a large tea cosy, & Wellington, sleek as a mastiff with paw extended ...
Virginia Woolf
#93. If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.
John Niven
#95. Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!
Jules Verne
#96. I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I've got 20 quid riding on you
Jules Verne
#97. Cal stares at the floor, silent for a long, stoic moment. "I never thought Maven would do that to her," he mutters finally. "She probably didn't either."
Then you're both stupid, my brain screams. How many times doe one wicked boy have to betray you people before you learn?
Victoria Aveyard
#98. The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.
Henry Watson Fowler
#99. Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
Queen Victoria
#100. Then, dear Mamma, I hope you will grant me the first request I make to you, as Queen. Let me be by myself for an hour.
Queen Victoria
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