Queens Quotes - Page 30

• It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Fun, Games

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
  All Nature was degraded;
  The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear,
  And all his pictures faded.

  William Blake

  Kings, Artist, Tears

  Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds p. cix 'When Sir Joshua Reynolds died' (c.1808)

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• Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.

  Casey Abrams

  Song, Feelings, Ears

  "‘American Idol’s’ Casey Abrams on hanging with Scotty McCreery and his best buddy". Interview with Melinda Newman, uproxx.com. June 21, 2012.

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• The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

  George Santayana

  Art, Passion, Race

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

  Herman Melville

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.33, Herman Melville

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• It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.

  Robert Benchley

  Mother, London, Forget

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.118, Glendower Media

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• It's all a matter of history.
  Brandy is no solace.
  Librium only lies me down
  like a dead snow queen.
  Yes! I am still the criminal.

  Anne Sexton

  Depression, Lying, Snow

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• Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen
  with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.

  Anne Sexton

  Kings, Couple, Rocks

  Anne Sexton (1996). “El Asesino y otros poemas”, p.73, Icaria Editorial

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• And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
  The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
  and when she arrived there were
  red-hot iron shoes,
  in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
  clamped upon her feet.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Iron, White

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Imagination, Mysterious, Faculty

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• In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.

  Horace Walpole

  Hands, Drawing, Feet

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• The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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• Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Power, Honey, Way

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• A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.

  Sharon Stone

  Kids, Thinking, Long

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• Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?

  Lena Dunham

  Drama, Individuality, Negative

  Twitter post from Jun 01, 2014

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• If I could be the "condom queen" and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would weara crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!

  Joycelyn Elders

  Sex, United States, Birth Control

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• I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.

  Zoe Saldana

  Leadership, Play, Justice

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• In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Daughter, Mother, Fashion

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• At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Father, Book, Writing

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• I engage with New York and America but my parents pretty much hang out in this radius of Long Island where their friends are and where their work is. That's why you have people who have lived in New York for like 20, 30 years who don't speak English. They just live in a Chinese community or an Indian community. More than anywhere you'll find that in Queens.

  Himanshu Suri

  New York, Islands, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday hats, but something that comes to you as if you were born to the king and queen. Aunt Loretta understands better than Grandma that reading a big book is more classy than wearing fake pearls watching TV.

  Heidi

  Kings, Book, Grandma

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• Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

  Joyce Giraud

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

  Joyce Giraud

  World, Kindergarten, Pageant

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• Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.

  Evan Thomas

  Real, Discovery, Interesting

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• What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical facts that Schiff has meticulously and lovingly excavated. Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era, one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history, and ourselves.

  Azar Nafisi

  Historical, Looks, Stories

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