
„If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
Quelle: Lark Rise, ch. 11, School
„If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
Florence Becker Lennon, The Life of Lewis Carroll (1962); page 27.
About Queen Victoria
„I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.“
— Don DeLillo American novelist, playwright and essayist 1936
'An Interview with Don DeLillo' by Maria Nadotti, Salmagundi #100, Fall, 1993
— Eugène Fromentin French painter 1820 - 1876
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, buch Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame
Quelle: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
„Failure? Do you remember what Queen Victoria once said? “Failure—the possibilities do not exist”.“
— Margaret Thatcher British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013
TV Interview for ITN (5 April 1982) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104913 regarding the Falkland Islands
First term as Prime Minister
Kontext: 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.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere
The Poet (1830)
Kontext: 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 American linguist 1908 - 2001
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])
Kontext: 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, buch Der Mythos des Sisyphos
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
„Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.“
— Albert Camus French author and journalist 1913 - 1960
This may have arisen as a paraphrase of statements found in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), "An Absurd Reasoning", or one found in The Novelist as Philosopher: Studies in French Fiction 1935-1960 (1962) edited by John Cruikshank, p. 218
Disputed
— Edward Bellamy American author and socialist 1850 - 1898
Quelle: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/lkbak10.txt (1888), Ch. 6.
— Paul Krugman American economist 1953
Introduction
The Return of Depression Economics and The Crisis of 2008 (2009)
— Gabriele Münter German painter 1877 - 1962
as quoted in the text of the exhibition 'Kandinsky and der Blaue Reiter', Gemeentemuseum the Hague, Netherlands; February-June, 2010
Gabriele refers to the big change she made, before the period of her first Murnau landscape paintings (c. 1904 - 1914), when she lived and worked together with Kandinsky].
— Ursula K. Le Guin, buch Lavinia
"Lavinia, these people were Greeks."
(The spirit of Virgil explains the Trojan war to Lavinia.) p. 44
Lavinia (2008)
— Francois Rabelais, buch Gargantua und Pantagruel
Quelle: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 20 : How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song
— Robert Holmes Irish writer 1765 - 1859
Speech (1848-05-20) in the case of John Mitchel, Young Irelander and one of the Irish Confederation Leaders. Mitchel was later sentenced to fourteen years transportation.
„I am the Queen of France and you are my subject“
— Mary, Queen of Scots Scottish monarch and queen consort of France 1542 - 1587