“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous."— Queen Victoria” — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
“Then there's Queen Victoria, like a large tea cosy, & Wellington, sleek as a mastiff with paw extended . . .” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. — Kerry Thornley Copy Share Image
I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library. — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere! — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
“Queen Victoria had the face of an old potato that has sat at the bottom of a bucket too long.” — Jerrod Edson Copy Share Image
Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Queen Victoria loved the French Riviera. She visited on nine occasions and did a great deal to give this area its chic… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
When Queen Victoria became Britain's longest ruling monarch in September 1896, ousting George III, church bells rang throughout the country, and beacons… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job,… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“with a predeliction for enticing people to approach him, then punching or kicking them in the testicles. He was Angus MacKay, Queen Victoria's… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“In her famous proclamation of 1858, Queen Victoria declared that it was the will of the crown saying, “Our subjects, of whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
“It is calculated that George III had an astonishing fifty-six grandchildren. He did not have one legitimate heir. The vision of Charlotte… — Kate Williams Copy Share Image
In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a… — Webster Tarpley Copy Share Image
“He felt as if he'd woken up, weak and confused, only to be told that he'd spent the last three weeks in… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army… — Qurratulain Hyder Copy Share Image
“Brushing dirt from his coat, Sam ignored the wild-eyed looks the other three gave him. Surely a house like this had enough… — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
“Most people avoid confronting family issues because they can't see a way to change the relationships they find so frustrating. The frustration… — Monica McGoldrick Copy Share Image
“A young English couple was visiting with me one summer after I had been composting humanure for about six years. One evening,… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes." Alec looked at… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Here we are on top of the world. We have arrived at this peak to stay there forever. There is, of course,… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
“Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“On the bus, I pull out my book. It's the best book I've ever read, even if I'm only halfway through. It's… — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
“You were looking for me? Victoria wondered if she would be red for the rest of her life. Yes. Isn't that something.… — Claire Legrand Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in Queen Victoria's younger years at Kensington Palace. She was born in the dining room because it had stairs… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“There was soot and orphans everywhere, and gaslit cobbled streets full of fog and sinister gentlemen out for a night of illicit… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
“only the emperor among three hundred millions is allowed to use vermilion ink. Imagine that. If Queen Victoria said, ‘From now on,… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
“As if etiquette weren’t magnificently capable of being used to make others feel uncomfortable. All right. Miss Manners will give you an… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
