Victoria quotes

It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking toVictoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons.

-William Raymond Manchester
  The Last Lion.

The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

-John Hanning Speke
  Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.

If this is the way QueenVictoria treats her prisoners she doesn't deserve to have any.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  On being obliged to stand in the rain as he awaited transport to take him to prison. Attributed.

The three women I have admired most are Queen Victoria, Sarah Bernhardt and Lillie Langtry.I would have married any one of them with pleasure.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
Attributed.