For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
More Quotes by Queen Victoria
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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.
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.