“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
“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
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
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. — Kerry Thornley 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“A 1970 survey of dreams about Queen Elizabeth II found that people continued to dream about Queen Victoria seventy years after her… — Jane Ridley 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
“From the moment he looked through the lens of his father’s microscope to the day he was knighted by Queen Victoria, his… — Lindsey Fitzharris 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library. — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
“India a country in southern Asia occupying the greater part of the Indian subcontinent; pop. 1,045,845,226 (est. 2002); official languages, Hindi and… — Angus Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What a curious man you are!’ she said. ‘Why should you disbelieve the history?’ ‘I disbelieve the history because it isn’t history,’… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
