The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position,… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous."— Queen Victoria” — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
