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

- Queen Victoria

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surel…

- Queen Victoria

Just close your eyes—and think of England.

- 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 o…

- Queen Victoria

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

- Queen Victoria

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

- Queen Victoria

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

- Queen Victoria

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

- Queen Victoria

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

- Queen Victoria