Victoria Quotes - Page 2

• The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."

  Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford

  Daughter, Queens, Views

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• I'm a really smiley person, so I've just learned when I'm doing my own makeup, I have to make sure it's smile ready and not too heavy. As amazing as the Victoria Beckham pout is for photos, I just can't do it!

  Rosario Dawson

  Makeup, Smiley, Heavy

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• If you're willing to travel, or just super-desperate, the best place in the world to meet unattached men is on the Alaska pipeline. I'm told that the trek through the frozen tundra is well worth the effect for any woman who wants to know what it feels like to be Victoria Principal.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Alaska, Dating

  Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much... And Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, Three Rivers Press

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

  V. S. Pritchett

  Queens, Mixtures, Actresses

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• A cup at Starbucks isn't really that expensive when you consider what Victoria's Secret charges per cup.

  Ashley Purdy

  Secret, Cups, Starbucks

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

  David Dimbleby

  Memorial, Built

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• At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Dog, Home, Blue

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

  Brody Dalle

  Way, Bitterness, Drink

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• In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a viceroy from London and before too long, Queen Victoria was proclaimed “Empress of India,” with this great empire, ruling over maharajahs and other local potentates.

  Webster Tarpley

  Queens, Long, Mutiny

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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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• Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.

  Andy Gibb

  Islands, Two, Desert

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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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• There are more speculators about New Westminster and Victoria than there were in Winnipeg during the boom and they are a much sharper lot. Nearly every person is more or less interested and you will have to be on your guard against all of them.

  William Cornelius Van Horne

  Persons, Winnipeg, Speculators

  Canadian Pacific Railway Company, William Cornelius Van Horne “Van Horne Letter Book: Dec. 3rd, 1884-Feb. 3rd, 1885”

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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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• 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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• In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
  [Lat., Horae
  Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

  Horace

  Victory, Moments, Joyful

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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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• 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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• 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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• If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

  Oscar Wilde

  Queens, Way, Treats

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

  Si Robertson

  Secret, Hey

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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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