Author: Queen Victoria

Quotes

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

- 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.

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

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.

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

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

- Queen Victoria

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