An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
– Queen Victoria
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
– Queen Victoria
Everybody grows but me.
– Queen Victoria
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
– Queen Victoria
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
– Queen Victoria
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
– Queen Victoria
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
– Queen Victoria
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
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
– Queen Victoria
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
I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
– Queen Victoria
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.