45+ Best Queen Victoria Quotes You Must Read

Here we have compiled a list of 48 best and famous quotes of and about Queen Victoria. Specifically, her famous, inspirational, and women’s rights sayings.

Queen Victoria was the first female ruler to have a successful reign and is one of the most famous monarchs in British history. She was born in 1819, came to the throne in June of 1837, and ruled for 63 years.

Queen had nine children; her husband Prince Albert helped guide their young daughter through these difficult times. Victoria died at the age of 81 during her reign from 1880-1901, known as one of Britain’s Golden Ages. Her time on the throne saw massive changes such as industrialization, three wars with continental powers, including France and Germany. Undoubtedly, she is considered one of the most influential and dominant personalities.

So, let’s start exploring her amazing quotes, and we hope you’ll also enjoy reading these all.

Queen Victoria Famous Quotes

“Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.” — Queen Victoria
“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 goodwill and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.” — Queen Victoria
“I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.” — Queen Victoria
“Beware of artists; they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.” — Queen Victoria
“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
“We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.” — Queen Victoria
“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…” “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…”
“Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’”— Queen Victoria
“The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic away 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
“I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.” — Queen Victoria
“Everybody grows but me.” — Queen Victoria
“Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.” — Queen Victoria
“Just close your eyes—and think of England.” — Queen Victoria
“[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself ‘as married to Christ’:] That’s what I call twaddle!” — Queen Victoria
“Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.” — Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria Inspirational Quotes

“We will not have failure – only success and new learning.” — Queen Victoria
“The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.” — Queen Victoria
“If you begin giving up, they will go on grabbing till they get everything.” — Queen Victoria
“His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!” — Queen Victoria
“He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.” — Queen Victoria
“Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.” — Queen Victoria
“Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.” — Queen Victoria
“Oh, that peace may come.” — Queen Victoria
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.” — Queen Victoria
“We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us – loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe – yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!” — Queen Victoria
“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

Queen Victoria Quotes About Women

“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
“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.” — Queen Victoria
“The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children – for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him – and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.” — Queen Victoria
“A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.” — Queen Victoria
“I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.” — Queen Victoria
“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.” — Queen Victoria
“I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of “Women’s Rights,” with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman 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
“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
“I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.” — Queen Victoria
“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
“Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.” — Queen Victoria

Quotes on Queen Victoria

She no longer followed fashion; she had created a fashion all her own. — Lucy Worsley
One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn’t believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law, so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs. — Patricia Briggs
To Victoria’s evident distaste, [Prime Minister William] Gladstone made no concessions to her femininity. He treated her just like a man, or else ‘as a competent and intelligent head of state’. — Lucy Worsley
A species of madness’ had come upon her, [Dr Clark] claimed … but these fears were greatly amplified by the fact that Victoria was approaching that time of life when Victorian women, in general, were believed to lose control of themselves: the menopause. … Menopausal women, contemporary doctors hinted, would become sex maniacs. Lucy Worsley,
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
The daily contents even of her bin ‘would be more interesting than a year’s file of The Times’. — Lucy Worsley
Historian Dorothy Thompson has pointed out the double standard at work here. A king’s having a mistress was regrettable but ultimately acceptable. The possibility, though, of a female ruler having a sexual relationship outside of marriage causes dismay and prurient ridicule. — Lucy Worsley
The next draft of a bill outlining the punishments for homosexuality must omit all mention of females; it was unnecessary for ‘women don’t do such things. — Lucy Worsley
Victoria’s courtiers generally shared the views of her administrators and colonial staff in India, which were that Indians were decidedly inferior to Europeans. Victoria, however, perhaps having less cause to worry about her status being challenged, was less prone to this, ‘There is no hatred to a brown skin – none,’ she wrote, even in the wake of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. — Lucy Worsley
This bonnet, worn with resolution, had caused some upset. Her government had asked its queen to appear more … queenly. ‘The symbol that unties this vast Empire is a Crown, not a bonnet,’ complained Lord Roseberry. But Victoria stoutly refused, and ‘the bonnet triumphed’. — Lucy Worsley
Many people envied her position as the winner of the Baby Race and the wearer of the crown. But when she discovered she was to be queen, Victoria already knew that it was the breaking, not the making, of her life. ‘I cried much,’ she said. Her mother had prepared her for the lonely royal trap in which bother of their lives would be lived, a trap that tightly clasped so many Victorian women but which squeezed and nipped at a queen perhaps most damagingly of all. ‘You cannot escape your own feelings,’ Victoire told Victoria, all those years ago, ‘you cannot escape … from the situation you are born in. You cannot escape. It was true. You cannot escape. — Lucy Worsley

FAQs

What was Queen Victoria motto?

Queen Victoria’s motto was “Ich Dien“, which translates to “I serve“

Queen Victoria famously used ich Dien as her personal inscription on all of her coins and stamps. The translation from German means “I serve” or, more literally, “As long as I live.

Why did Queen Victoria say “we are not amused”?

The British Empire was at its height in the late 1800s when Queen Victoria was monarch of England and Ireland from 1837 to 1901, said we are not amused. She ruled her vast empire with an iron fist during a period that saw advances in technology as well as expansion into new territories such as Africa and India – but she wasn’t always happy about all these changes.

What is Queen Victoria best known for?

She was one of the longest-reigning monarchs in British history who had so much power to shape countries around her. Her rise coincided with a time when people were starting to question traditional roles associated with gender, which ultimately led towards more equality between men and woman’s rights– not just within Britain but across Europe too!