Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
Victoriawas Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she had the additional title of Empress of India...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth24 May 1819
CityLondon, England
men suffering trials
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
hate good-woman occupation
I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.
leadership inspirational-life winning
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
drinking practice alcohol
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ...
children parent lessons
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.
country real desire
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.
nice pregnancy thinking
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.
nerves events calm
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
eye thinking england
Just close your eyes—and think of England.
artist class dangerous
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
irritation feelings littles
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 . . .
queens women rights
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.
beer giving people
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
men males hateful
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.