Victoria Quotes

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)
We've been asked to do 'Playboy' together, me and Victoria, as a pair. I don't think I'll ever go naked, but I'll never say never. View quote
David Beckham
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any. View quote
Oscar Wilde
My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please! View quote
Ernest Bevin
Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow. View quote
H. G. Wells
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. View quote
Ronald Knox
I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria. View quote
Daniel Steele
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him. View quote
Fay Wray
The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films. View quote
Ann Macbeth
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. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria. (David Dimbleby)
My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights. View quote
Dorothea Benton Frank
Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum. View quote
Geri Halliwell
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women. View quote
Victoria Principal
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. View quote
Mick Jagger
Nonsense, there are no clubs around Victoria. View quote
Harold Macmillan
There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras. View quote
Geoffrey Rush
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. View quote
Andy Gibb
I go into hair and makeup, and I turn into 'Victoria Beckham. View quote
Victoria Beckham
I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria. View quote
John Fowles
It is almost impossible to win a VC. In the hundred-and-fifty years since it was created, the number of British and Commonwealth troops who've seen action is in the tens of millions, but only 1,351 of them have been awarded the Victoria Cross. The chances of surviving a VC action are just one in ten, but if you do survive, the medal can never be taken away from you. You can go to the gallows wearing it. And no matter how many letters you have after your name, VC always comes first. (Jeremy Clarkson)
In 1987 a Civil Service inquiry decided that the pay of the Director of the Tate Gallery should match that of the Director of the much larger Victoria & Albert Museum and of the National Gallery, where the pictures were regarded as being much more important, because, and here I quote, "the Director of the Tate has to deal with the very difficult problem of modern art." View quote
Nicholas Serota
I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life. View quote
Martha Stewart
Let me go.” "I can't”, he said hoarsely, (...)” I've tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I can't. View quote
Judith McNaught
The world has actually been wired together by digital communications systems for a century and a half. Nothing that has happened during that time compares in its impact to the first exchange of messages between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan in 1858. That was so impressive that a mob of celebrants poured into the streets of New York and set fire to City Hall. View quote
Neal Stephenson