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Queen Victoria
12 quotes
“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.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1837 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extract from the Queen's Journal, Tuesday, 20th June 1837.
“Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1841 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to King of the Belgians, Nuneham, 15th June, 1841 (Note: Nuneham was the house of Edward Vernon Harcourt, Archbishop of York).
“My dearest Uncle,- I have the greatest pleasure in announcing to you a piece of news which I know will give you as much satisfaction and relief as it does to us, and will do to the whole of the world. Lord Palmerston is no longer Foreign Secretary—and Lord Granville has already named his successor!”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1851 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Early Belgian colonial Efforts: The long and fateful shadow of Leopold I, Page 67 Victoria to Leopold, 23 December, 1851, in Benson, 2:345.
“All marriage is such a lottery -- the happiness is always an exchange -- though it may be a very happy one -- still the poor woman is bodily and morally the husband's slave. That always sticks in my throat. When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl -- and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter (16 May 1860), published in Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal Previously Unpublished edited by Roger Fulfold (1964), p. 254. Also quoted in the article "Queen Victoria's Not So …
“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 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 (1819–1901) first seen 1870 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an 1870 letter, quoted for example in All For Love: Seven Centuries of Illicit Liaison by Val Horsler (2006), p. 104. At the bottom of this page, it is mentioned that the comment was written in a letter to Sir Theodo…
“It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After being shot at by Roderick Maclean on 2 March 1882, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen (1987), p. 450.
“It seems to me a defect in our much famed Constitution, to have to part with an admirable Govt like Ld Salisbury's for no question of any importance or any particular reason, merely on account of the number of votes.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment made after Salisbury lost power to Gladstone in 1892, quoted in Queen Victoria: A Biographical Companion by Helen Rappaport (2003), p. 331.
“I am too horrified for words at this monstrous horrible sentence against this poor martyr Dreyfus. If only all Europe would express its horror and indignation! I trust there will be a severe retribution.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1837 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lord Salisbury on the Dreyfus affair (9 September 1899), quoted in The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861, Vol. III 1896–1901, ed. George E…
“I sympathise most deeply with your expressions on the horrors of war, than which no one can feel more strongly than I do; and earnestly hope that it may be averted. But I cannot abandon my own subjects who have appealed to me for protection. If President Kruger is reasonable, there will be no war, but the issue is in his hands.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1837 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Queen of the Netherlands shortly before the Second Boer War (September 1899), quoted in The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861, Vol. II…
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: December 1899 letter to Arthur Balfour during the "Black Week" of the Boer War, as quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), p. 539.
“The names of the little one will be, Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie Clement Baudoin (baldwin, a name of the old counts of Flanders) Leopold George. My aunt who is his godmother wished he should be called Philippe, honour of his grandfather, and as Philippe le bon, who was one of the most powerful princes of this country. I gave him the name with pleasure. Eugene is her own name, Ferdinand that of Chartres, Marie is the name of the queen and of princess Marie, Clement of princess Clémentine, Leopold your aunt wished and George honour of St. George of England and of George the IV.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1837 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A royal puppet show in the Belgian royal family. The education of the first Belgian royal children. (Greet Donckers) AKP, Copies of the Correspondence between Queen Victoria and King Leopold I, Vol. I, Letter from King …
Also quoted by: Leopold I of Belgium
“Queen Victoria on promotion of Lionel Rothschild to peerage: "It is not only the feeling, of which she cannot divest herself, against making a person of the Jewish religion, a Peer; but she cannot think that one who owes his great wealth to contracts with foreign Governments for Loans, or to successful speculation on the Stock Exchange, can fairly claim a British Peerage. However high Sir L. Rothschild may stand personally in public estimation, this seems to her not less a species of gambling because it is on a gigantic scale and far removed from that legitimate trading which she delights to honour, in which men have raised themselves by patient industry and unswerving probity to positions of wealth and influence.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source