Queen Victoria's Quotes

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. — Kerry Thornley

I'd rather be free in Hell than in chains in America."--Victoria Woodhull in The Renegade Queen — Eva Flynn

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can. — Queen Victoria

[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that. — 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

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them. — Queen Victoria

Oh! It is dreadful...that one is almost always separated from those ones loves dearly and is encumbered with those one dislikes. -Queen Victoria — Cecil Woodham-Smith

The Duchess (of Kent) was a duck who had hatched a swan. — Cecil Woodham-Smith

Risk is part of the game. — Victoria Aveyard

She's like an earthquake in tiny human form, breaking apart anything and everything in her way. — Victoria Aveyard

As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return. — Victoria Aveyard

It's to bad we didn't stay longer", I murmur, looking out at the river. "I would have liked to die close to home. — Victoria Aveyard

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras. — Geoffrey Rush

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any. — Oscar Wilde

I do not fear pain. — Victoria Aveyard

I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk. — Victoria Aveyard

Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am. — Queen Victoria

I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down. — Victoria Aveyard

Attend to your own fate. — Victoria Aveyard

She was such a beautiful and sweet creature ... and so full of tricks. — Queen Victoria

They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt. — Victoria Aveyard

If there was ever a person begging for an elbow to the face, it is Evangeline Samos. — Victoria Aveyard

She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise. — Victoria Aveyard

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. — Queen Victoria

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this. — Victoria Aveyard

To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy. — Victoria Justice

It's not what they think of me that matters - but what I think of them. — Queen Victoria

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. — Queen Victoria

The truth doesn't matter. It only matters what the people believe. — Victoria Aveyard

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc. — Queen Victoria

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective. — George Bernard Shaw

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund. — Victoria Magazine

In the midst of affection and longing the iron hand appeared within the velvet glove.... — Cecil Woodham-Smith

I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter. Close your eyes and think of England. — Margaret Atwood

And you're late."
"I prefer chronologically challenged. — Victoria Aveyard

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

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. — A. N. Wilson

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is. — Jean Plaidy

They beg to a Silver king, and spit upon Red queens. — Victoria Aveyard

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

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous. — Queen Victoria

More than husband and consort, Albert was everything to Victoria, and Osborne was unthinkable without him. — Sarah Ferguson

I am the king and you could've been my Red Queen. — Victoria Aveyard

Oh, that peace may come. — Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry. — Eddie Izzard

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all. — Queen Victoria

In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time. — Kerry Greenwood

Make no mistake, my girl," he finally breathes. "You are playing the game as someone's pawn. — Victoria Aveyard

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle! — Queen Victoria

Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said.
By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity — Victoria Hanley

We will rise up red as the dawn. — Victoria Aveyard

I'm good at what I do. — Victoria Aveyard

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials. — Queen Victoria

Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.' — Queen Victoria

We will not have failure - only success and new learning. — Queen Victoria

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. — 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

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy. — Queen Victoria

They trained me for this. It's their own fault. They helped make their own doom. — Victoria Aveyard

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting. — Queen Victoria

Then there's Queen Victoria, like a large tea cosy, & Wellington, sleek as a mastiff with paw extended ... — Virginia Woolf

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days. — Victoria Hanley

Red Queen. The lightning girl. She lives. Rise, Red as dawn. Rise. Rise. Rise. — Victoria Aveyard

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress. — V.S. Pritchett

Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England! — Jules Verne

Everybody grows but me. — Queen Victoria

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere! — Zubin Mehta

Then, dear Mamma, I hope you will grant me the first request I make to you, as Queen. Let me be by myself for an hour. — Queen Victoria

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ... — Queen Victoria

When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on. — Victoria Aveyard

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

I don't know how, but I hope you become queen one day. Imagine what you could do then? The Red queen. — Victoria Aveyard