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“There is no giving advice to a young man so much in love.”
― Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
“It was not a union which seemed likely to prosper, since its chief characteristics were imprudence, youth and extreme good looks.”
― Cecil Woodham-Smith
“...moderate your desire of producing perfection, temper your eagerness to produce faultless performance...and soften your manners towards those who are subordinate to you...”
― Cecil Woodham-Smith
“Tell Lord Brudenell...that he has already given me satisfaction: the satisfaction of having removed the most damned bad tempered and extravagant bitch in the kingdom.”
― Cecil Woodham-Smith
tags: relief-from-pain
“Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for nothing destructive flirt and devil.”
― Cecil Woodham-Smith
tags: learning-to-live
“An armed disciplined force is in its essence dangerous to liberty.”
― Cecil Woodham-Smith
tags: armed-and-dangerous
“Oh! It is dreadful...that one is almost always separated from those ones loves dearly and is encumbered with those one dislikes. -Queen Victoria”
― Cecil Woodham-Smith, Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
tags: queen-victoria
“One of the very few valid criticisms of Queen Victoria is that she was not sufficiently concerned with improvement of the conditions in which a great mass of her subjects passed their lives. She lived through an age of profound social change, but neither public health, nor housing, nor the education of her people, nor their representation, engaged much of her time.”
― Cecil Woodham-Smith, Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
“In the midst of affection and longing the iron hand appeared within the velvet glove....”
― Cecil Woodham-Smith, Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
tags: queen-victoria, victoria-albert
“The duch*ess (of Kent) was a duck who had hatched a swan.”
― Cecil Woodham-Smith, Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
“The Queen (Victoria) wrote generously to her mother, 'I quite understand your feelings on the occasion of Sir John Conroy's death. . . I will not speak of the past and the many sufferings he entailed on us by creating divisions between you and me which could never have existed otherwise, they are buried with him.. For his poor wife and children I am truly sorry."
Thanking the Queen for her letter the duch*ess of Kent wrote 'Yes, Sir John Conroy's death was a most painful shock. I shall not try and excuse the many errors that unfortunate man committed, but it would be very unjust if I allowed all the blame to be thrown on him. I am in justice bound to accuse myself. . . I erred in believing blindly, in acting with out refection. . . I allowed myself unintentionally to be led led to hurt you, my dearest child, for whom I would have given at every moment my life! Refection came always too late, but not the deserved punishment! My sufferings were great, very great. God be praised that those terrible times are gone by and that only death can separate me from you My beloved Victoria.”
― Cecil Woodham-Smith, Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
