Author: Queen Victoria

Cited by

• Jim Holt (1)
  • IN: Why Does the World Exist? (2012) Non-Fiction, Cosmology, American
    EPIGRAPH: I would earnestly warn you against trying to find out tht reason for and explanation of everything... To try and find out the reason for everything is very dangerous and leads to nothing but disappointment and dissatisfaction, unsettling your mind and in the end making you miserable.
    FROM: Letter to granddaughter Princess Victoria of Hesse, (1883), Letter, UK
• Sharon Biggs Waller (2)
  • IN: A Mad, Wicked Folly (2014) Historical Fiction, Romance Novel, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Women's Rights," with all its attendent horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety.
    FROM: NULL, (1870), NULL, UK
  • IN: The Mad, Wicked Folly (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Women's Rights" with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety.
    FROM: NULL, (1870), NULL, UK