I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library. — Claire Foy 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
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere! — Zubin Mehta 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
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any. — Oscar Wilde 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
“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
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
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
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
The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty,… — Countess of Longford Elizabeth Pakenham Copy Share Image
I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which… — John Fowles 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
If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart,… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
“For the very first time Andrew realized that life, real life, had no connection with the way people spent their days, whose… — Felix J Palma 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
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that… — Ronald Knox 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
“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
“It’s what I call common sense, properly understood,’ replied Father Brown. ’It really is more natural to believe a preternatural story, that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Messrs. Strunk and White don’t speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I’m willing to; I… — Stephen King 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
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn 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
At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book.… — Rheta Childe Dorr 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
