Victoria Quotes

“The extreme paradox arose that one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous and unconventional women who ever lived was paraded before the public as a stiff, pompous little person, the ‘figurehead’ to an all-male imperial enterprise. This”
― A.N. Wilson, Victoria: A Life

“and warn you against all that could hurt your soul and body.17”
― A.N. Wilson, Victoria: A Life

“The Queen, watching from home, noted how the war began as a prodigiously popular thing; but this was the first war at which photographers, and a good war reporter (William Russell of The Times), had been present. When the inefficiency, and the sickness, and the sheer horror of the conflict became known, the public turned their wrath on the politicians. The”
― A.N. Wilson, Victoria: A Life

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.’9”
― A.N. Wilson, Victoria: A Life

“The monarchy, as Lord Esher, adviser to Edward VII and editor of Queen Victoria’s early letters and journals, would later say, was exchanging ‘authority’ for ‘influence’.3”
― A.N. Wilson, Victoria: A Life