Edward Vii Quotes

#1. The monarchy, as Lord Esher, adviser to Edward VII and editor of Queen Victoria's early letters and journals, would later say, was exchanging 'authority' for 'influence'.3

A. N. Wilson

#2. It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

Anthony Holden

#3. Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and ... talking about

Edward VII

#4. I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.

Edward VII

#5. My painting is a contest
between life and sleep.

Francis Picabia

#6. If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?

Howie Mandel

#7. The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

John Foster Dulles

#8. History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

Stephane Hessel

#9. If misfortune finds us, it will not find a home among us, for our hearts will give it no berth, as we birth the fortunes, misfortune missed.

Tom Althouse

#10. No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

Edward VII

#11. One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

Edward VII

#12. You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

Edward VII

#13. I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

Edward VII

#14. I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

Edward VII

#15. He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a few.

Barry Lyga

#16. There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

Edward VII

#17. Not only does one drink champagne, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one swallows it ... And one drinks it.

Edward VII

#18. Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.

Lewis H. Lapham