Top 10 Famous Quotes by Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) was the Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 until her death in 1901, making her the second-longest reigning British monarch. Her reign, known as the Victorian era, was marked by significant industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military changes in the United Kingdom. Under her rule, the British Empire expanded significantly, becoming the foremost global power. Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, and their nine children married into various European royal families, earning her the nickname "the grandmother of Europe." Her legacy includes advancements in technology and infrastructure, as well as the promotion of moral values and social reforms.

Top 10 Famous Quotes by Queen Victoria

1. "I was born to be queen, and I will be."
— Queen Victoria

2. "I am the mistress of my own destiny."
— Queen Victoria

3. "What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine, dear, but I own I can not enter into that; I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments; when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic."
— Queen Victoria

4. "The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Woman's Rights’, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety."
— Queen Victoria

5. "You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment—their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent."
— Queen Victoria

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

7. "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist."
— Queen Victoria

8. "We are not amused."
— Queen Victoria

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

10. "Everyone I love has died and I just go on and on. What is the point? Service, Your Majesty. We are here for a greater purpose."
— Queen Victoria