Queen Victoria

Quotes by Queen Victoria

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Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901

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

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

“She knew all about lovethat beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey.”

“She knew all about love—that beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey.”

“I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.”

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

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“The Queen (Victoria) wrote generously to her mother, 'I quite understand your feelings on the occasion of Sir John Conroy's death. . . I will not speak of the past and the many sufferings he entail...”
— Cecil Woodham-Smith, Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
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“She knew all about lovethat beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey.”
— Mary Hart Perry, The Wild Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Defiant Daughter
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“The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them”
— Queen Victoria
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“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
Woman People Think

“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 coura...”
— Queen Victoria
Man Think Courageous

“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
Queen She Rights

“I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.”
— Queen Victoria
Intimacy Dangerous Little

“A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.”
— Queen Victoria
Sad Act Amusement

“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
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“She knew all about love—that beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey.”
— Mary Hart Perry, The Wild Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Defiant Daughter
beautiful love romance