"It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history."

-- E. M. Forster

#Queens Quotes #Character Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.”

Source : Gilbert Burnet (1734). “History of His Own Time: From the revolution to the conclusion of the treaty of peace at Utrecht, in the reign of Queen Anne : to which is added the author's life”, p.648
“I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election....It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!”
“God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life.”
“People are starving for love, not knowing their heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need. Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world.”
“Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.”
“There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.”

Source : In re Tyler, Tyler v. Tyler (1891), L. R. 3 C. D. [1891], p. 258,
“If womenâ€™s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.”
“I finally understand that itâ€™s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.”

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