Any Quote by E. F. Benson

Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She…

— E. F. Benson

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black.…

— Emily Blunt

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with…

— Henry Watson Fowler

“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous."— Queen Victoria”

— Queen Victoria

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

— Cindy Sherman

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

— V. S. Pritchett

Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic…

— Jane Austen

A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

— Victor Hugo

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

— John Dewey

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

— Lawren Harris

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

— Raymond Chandler