Quotes About Victoria

I made my personal discovery of Emily Carr while visiting Victoria in 1981 to write a travel article. Immediately, her strong colors attracted me; her spunk fascinated me. Her down-to-earth voice in her writing appealed to me as authentic and original.

When Victoria's ministers broke the news to her about the rising expenses, the waste and extravagance in her household, she was genuinely appalled. Her bed broke, and she refused to let her servants have it mended because it would cost too much. She ordered fewer kinds of bread at breakfast. And in a move which surprised her staff, she commanded that toilet paper should give way to newspaper squares in the castle lavatories at Windsor.

The afternoon at the Pyramids was duly enjoyable. Victoria, though reasonably fond of children, might have enjoyed it more without Mrs. Kitchin's offspring. Children when sight? seeing is in progress are apt to be somewhat of a handicap. The youngest child became so fretful that the two women returned earlier from the expedition than they had meant to do.

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A seal the size of Canada attaches to her soul light.

I feel so honored to be reprising the role of Janet Weiss and stepping into Susan Sarandon's shoes.

faction warfare erupted in Victoria. They do politics differently there. Wars are fought in the name of peace. Explosives are packed under the foundations of the Labor Party in the name of stability. They call the wreckage left after these brawls rejuvenation. The wonder is that Victoria delivers any Labor talent to Canberra and remains, decade after decade, a stronghold of the party.

Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.

Magellan expected to see all four captains at Easter mass but only one, Luis de Mendoza, of Victoria, arrived.

The Kaiser was Royalty, with a capital 'R', being Queen Victoria's grandson. As such, he could not, by definition, be insane. The Kaiser was also the leader of the Huns and was obviously crazy as a loon. That being the case, he was quite mad. It was not easy to be mad while being sane, but it was absolutely essential that he should be both. He wondered what the Daily Mail had to say on the topic.

Finn is Daddy,' said Victoria with fat satisfaction. 'Not yet,' said Finn. 'But we'll christen the first one Proximity.' Melanie choked on a mouthful.

It may seem hard to believe - unless you sit down and taste them - but some of the world's greatest sweet wines are made in the Rutherglen region of Victoria, Australia.

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.

Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.

I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter. Close your eyes and think of England.

We took a bus to Victoria, then passed on foot into a vast, desolate region of stucco streets and squares upon which a doom seemed to have fallen. The gloom was cosmic.

Victoria wasn't beautiful, but a stern regularity of feature made her uncompromisingly handsome.

Honestly, I don't think Victoria has too many Secrets left... might be time to prayerfully consider a name change.

Henry Gordon Jago: Perhaps [Queen Victoria] has got wind of our exploits, and has decided it's time to mete out the medals for services rendered. . . . I'd say some official recognition is long overdue. Prof. Litefoot: It strikes me as unlikely, Henry, that she would, as you put it, "have got wind of our exploits." Jago: The Queen gets wind just like everyone else, George.

The long, faithful, loving partnership of Victoria and Albert has come to be a dusty old fact enshrined in the history books, but as a lived reality, it was an extraordinary feat achieved against the odds.

When Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in February of 1840, she had worn a white satin gown with a flounce of Honiton lace. In wearing white, she had started a tradition without knowing it. Forever after, brides would always be married in a white gown.

I would like to mud wrestle Angelina Jolie. She would probably beat me up, but I like a challenge and she is very sexy.

It has been conservatively estimated that Victoria wrote an average of two and a half thousand words per day during her reign, a total of approximately sixty million words.