Queens Quotes - Page 38

• Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.

  Hans Rosling

  Eight, Years, President

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• Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.

  J. Christopher Herold

  Principles, Reform, Aversion

  J. Christopher Herold (1983). “The Horizon book of the age of Napoleon”, Harmony

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• Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.

  Colin Firth

  People, Actors, Want

  "Firth: 'All Actors Are Drag Queens'" by wenn.com, July 21, 2008.

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• Endurance is the queen of all virtues.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Endurance, Virtue

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• Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!'

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Humor, Looks

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• On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.

  Russell Brand

  Funny, Eye, Comedy

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from May 01, 2013

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• Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance.

  Alexander Kotov

  School, Independent, Hands

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• If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

  Bert Sugar

  Sports, Horse, Kings

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• Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.

  Ben Jonson

  Sleep, Light, Sun

  Cynthia's Revels act 5, sc. 3 (1600)

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• Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.

  Flavor Flav

  Kids, Naughty, Enemy

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• The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Luxury, Sailing

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.147, Wildside Press LLC

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• By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Moving, Sacrifice, White

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• At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Pieces, Chess, Fortune

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• In choosing an opening plan players think most of all of harmonious development for the pieces, but sometimes leave the development of the queen out of their considerations. Yet the Queen is the most valuable and important piece and the whole outcome can depend upon how successfully she plays her role.

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Thinking, Important

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• Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Art, Kissing, And Love

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads”, p.174

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• We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

  Henry Bessemer

  Cities, Office, Geek

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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• She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's daisy chain, that rabbits are gnomes in attendance on the Fairy Queen, and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born, which, as we know, is not the case. She's a drooper.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Baby, Stars

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• In masks and gown we haunt the street
  And knock on doors for trick or treat
  Tonight we are the king and queen,
  For oh tonight it's Halloween!

  Jack Prelutsky

  Kings, Halloween, Doors

  Jack Prelutsky (1977). “It's Halloween”, Scholastic Paperbacks

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• If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.

  Serena Williams

  Drama, Winning, Bored

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• If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

  Irving Chernev

  Kings, Men, Bishops

  Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books

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• How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.

  Thomas Hood

  Agency, Ruins, Coins

  Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.99

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• I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

  Queen Latifah

  Acting Right, Crowns, World

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• Experimental science is the queen of knowledge.

  Roger Bacon

  Science, Experimental Science

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• The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed with garden elements. Blueprint, botanical, lattice, Queen Anne's lace and folly prints are paired with cleaner silhouettes and proportions in a fresh palette of green, white and coral.

  Tory Burch

  Character, Garden, White

  FaceBook post by Tory Burch from Sep 12, 2013

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• Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Protect, Ifs

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.389, Bantam

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