“If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“There was no Victoria in the school … That great name was sacred to the Queen and was not copied by her subjects to the extent imagined by period novelists of today.”
— Flora Thompson, book Lark Rise
Source: Lark Rise, ch. 11, School
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“I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.”
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Quote from Les Maitres d'Autrefois / The Old Masters, Eugène Fromentin; 1948, p. 108; as cited in 'Dutch Painting of the Golden Age', http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/dutch-painting-the-golden-age/content-section-2 OpenLearn
“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
“Failure? Do you remember what Queen Victoria once said? “Failure—the possibilities do not exist”.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere
The Poet (1830)
Context: There was no blood upon her maiden robes
Sunn'd by those orient skies;
But round about the circles of the globes
Of her keen
And in her raiment's hem was traced in flame
WISDOM, a name to shake
All evil dreams of power — a sacred name.
And when she spake,
Her words did gather thunder as they ran,
And as the lightning to the thunder
Which follows it, riving the spirit of man,
Making earth wonder,
So was their meaning to her words. No sword
Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,
But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word
She shook the world.
Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) American linguist
Footnote: Some scholars, however, now interpret his [David's] name as meaning "victory."
Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])
Context: Like Helen, Sarah is wonderously fair and ageless.... Like Helen, Sarah's name means "princess" in normal Hebrew, and "queen" in Akkadian. It is conceivable that (like David afterwards, whose name dāvîd means "leader, chief") her title came to be used as her name.
“Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
