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1 " While you are waiting to die, you have to live. "
― Kate Williams , The Storms of War (The Storms of War #1)
2 " It would be wrong to kill oneself if one did not know exactly the nature of one's eyes. "
3 " As the weather improved, the bobms got worse. The newspapers said that the Kaiser was aiming to knock London down (although avoiding Buckingham Palace, so as not to hit his relations). "
4 " A shabby looking old man was walking their way. It must be a relative of one of the men, wandering in the wrong direction as they often did. Where were they going to put this one? He was wearing a pulled-down hat and he had a long beard. He was weaving towards her, his feet tripping unsteadily.Even though she could not see his face, there was something oddly familiar about him. She stared hard, trying to make it out. He put up his hand and waved. She stared again. "That's your father," said Tom. "
5 " I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt "
6 " There were strange noises in the room, great bellowing sobs that did not sound like anything human. They bounced off the wals, echoing in her ears. Stop! she wanted to cry at the person who was making the noise. Then she realised that it was her. "
7 " And yet, as Verena watched her turn back to the dusting, she had the curious sensation that positions had been reversed in the oddest fashion. The girl was the one telling her to go away, it was her house and Verena was the maid. "
8 " Albert liked to play the stoic, and he embraced the opportunity to do over the negotiations about the marriage. He insisted that Uncle Leopold know what a great sacrifice he was making for the Saxe-Coburg family and Germany. As he gloomily lectured his uncle, 'troubles are inseparable from all human positions and…therefore if one must be subject to plagues and annoyances, it is better to be so for some great or worthy object than for trifles or miseries.'Unfortunately for Albert, Leopold was deaf to self-pitying emotional blackmail and remained determined on his course. "
― Kate Williams , Becoming Queen
9 " It is calculated that George III had an astonishing fifty-six grandchildren. He did not have one legitimate heir. The vision of Charlotte had sustained the people through the direst years of the regency. Without her, all hope seemed gone.From "Becoming Queen Victoria "
10 " Victoria liked music full of high passion and drama. “I am a terribly modern person,” she decided. "
11 " AMBITION IS NEVER content, even at the summit of greatness,” Napoleon declared. "
― Kate Williams , Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte
12 " Government worried that the parishes could not cope with such demands, and there was a widely held notion that the able-bodied were indolently living on handouts. "
13 " I care "
14 " I am not like other men, and the ordinary laws of morality and rules of propriety do not apply to me,” Napoleon vaunted. "
15 " Life in a palace rather resembles camping in a museum, "
― Kate Williams , Young Elizabeth: The Making of the Queen
16 " Women should stick to knitting,” said Napoleon.12 "
17 " As the Queen put it, ‘The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country under any circumstances whatsoever. "
18 " first requisite of a really good officer is to temper justice with mercy’. As "
19 " When I am outside in the fresh air my ideas take a higher direction,” Napoleon said. “I cannot understand how some men can work successfully if they are always inside, beside the fireplace, without communication with the sky.”30 "
20 " I am glad we’ve been bombed,’ said the Queen famously. ‘It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face. "
