Victoria Quotes

• Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

  Lady Gregory

  Queens, Body, Loyal

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.528, eBookIt.com

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• There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Queens, Biggie, Eras

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• When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Long

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• There was this one time in Vegas when I took four Victoria's Secret models and did one gram off each of their bodies within, like, 45 minutes. I declared myself King of Vegas and decided to remodel my hotel room with my bare hands to resemble King Louis XIV's bedroom at Versailles. Knocked down two entire walls, and later had four knuckle surgeries. Still wasn't as high as Rob Ford.

  Charlie Sheen

  Kings, Wall, Vegas

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• The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Travel, Queens, Home

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• Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Queens, Mixtures, Actresses

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• I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud.

  David Beckham

  Girl, Dark, Opposites

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• Back in the old days, everyone was shocked if a band had a sponsor for their tour. Now, Bob Dylan can do a commercial for Victoria's Secret and people don't really blink; the Beatles' songs are in all sorts of commercials these days and it doesn't seem to offend anybody. The times are changing.

  Judd Apatow

  Song, Times Are Changing, People

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch a moment or two. But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies.

  Julie Andrews

  Two, Sound, Watches

  "Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. January 19, 2010.

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• Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.

  Ronald Knox

  Queens, Thinking, Matter

  "God and the Atom". Book by Ronald Knox, pp. 53 - 54, 1945.

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• There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something done and boosting the economy. Obviously not everything is going to be a bonanza, some things are going to be awful, but wouldn't it be great if we had a fantastic window dresser to do something with those windows on Fairfield green and those Victoria's Secret windows. I love girls in bras in panties, but these are just mannequins. Wouldn't it be great if some local artists got together and said, "Hey, Victoria's Secret, let's do something!" We need that.

  Tina Weymouth

  Girl, Artist, Tolerance

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• The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

  John Hanning Speke

  Religious, Father, Rivers

  1863 Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.

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• Hillary Clinton is not the first woman to run for president. That title belongs to Victoria Woodhull, who ran for president in 1872. Her running mate was a young, scrappy John McCain.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, President, Titles

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• More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again, gender mattered. If Albert had lived, it seems clear that he would have resisted that development much more tenaciously, which the gradual emasculation (and feminization) of monarchy was probably more easily accomplished when a woman was on the throne.

  David Cannadine

  Queens, Should Have, Sovereign

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• In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.

  Mark Steyn

  Queens, War, Past

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• Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Taken, Tired

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

  Brody Dalle

  Way, Bitterness, Drink

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• Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Children, Hands, Wife

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.61, Wakefield Press

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• Victoria's got her secrets. Hey, so do I!

  Si Robertson

  Secret, Hey

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• In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

  Tom Stoppard

  Birthday, Party, Play

  "Tom Stoppard: Information is light" by Tom Stoppard, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any reader will love.

  Hannah Howell

  Strong, Betrayal, Hero

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• 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

  Queens, Eight, Years

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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

  Queens, Principles, Reform

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

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• And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.

  David Dimbleby

  Memorial, Built

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• Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

  Erika Slezak

  Jobs, Personality, Individualism

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