Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Queen Victoria (British Royal)

Queen Victoria (1819–1901) was a British monarch who presided over the most significant epoch of the British Empire. She was the queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1837–1901 and the empress of India 1876–1901. Her reign was the longest in British history, only to be surpassed by Queen Elizabeth II’s present reign in 2015.

Born in London, Victoria ascended to the throne at age eighteen. she had taken a keen interest in the British Empire’s growth, and India became the jewel in her crown. An unapologetic imperialist, she asserted her authority and Britain’s on the world stage. However, she presided over the dawning of a new age as Britain began to allow colonies a measure of autonomy.

Victoria lived in relative isolation as the “Widow of Windsor” after the 1861 death of her husband, Prince Albert. She mostly withdrew from public life but took an active interest in clerical and diplomatic appointments. One of her last acts before she died in 1901 was to sign a bill recognizing Australia as a self-governing dominion.

Victoria came to be known as the “Grandmother of Europe” because seven of her 42 grandchildren eventually became crowned rulers. Her shrewd matchmaking for her children and grandchildren produced several royal marriages that shaped Europe. For instance, one granddaughter, Alexandra Feodorovna, became Russia’s tsarina; others became the queens of Spain, Greece, Romania, and Norway.

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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
Topics: Marriage

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
Topics: Marriage, Husbands, Aspirations

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world—so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don’t be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Father, Fathers

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Queens, Royalty, Kings

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.
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Men, Men & Women, Women

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Politics, Politicians

We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us—loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe—yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Remembrance

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.
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Marriage, Wives

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot 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
Topics: Pride

Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Marriage

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Losing, Defeat, Loss, Losers

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

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God’s will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Mothers

I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Babies

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Opinion, Opinions

I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
—Queen Victoria
Topics: Birth, Pregnancy

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

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone 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
Topics: Women, Feminism

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

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