Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Book Two in 'The Great Ball at Satan's', P/V
The Master and Margarita (1967)
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Book Two in 'The Great Ball at Satan's', P/V
The Master and Margarita (1967)
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Interview with Martin Bashir on BBC Panorama (20 November 1995)
“Jalil: I think you look like a queen.”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
“Failure? Do you remember what Queen Victoria once said? “Failure—the possibilities do not exist”.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
TV Interview for ITN (5 April 1982) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104913 regarding the Falkland Islands <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Context: I am not talking about failure, I am talking about my supreme confidence in the British fleet... superlative ships, excellent equipment, the most highly trained professional group of men, the most honourable and brave members of Her Majesty's Service. Failure? Do you remember what Queen Victoria once said? “Failure—the possibilities do not exist”. That is the way we must look at it, with all our professionalism, all our flair and every single bit of native cunning, every single bit of professionalism and all our equipment and we must go out calmly, quietly, to succeed.
“Behind of a great queen is always a great king.”
José Hermano Saraiva (1919–2012) Historian, Jurist, Politician
Original: (pt) Por trás de uma grande rainha está sempre um grande rei.
Source: "A Alma e a Gente - D. Maria II, A Rainha da Regeneração"
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
“It will be like the end of time when the Queen dies.”
Roy Strong (1935) art historian from the United Kingdom
“You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame