The Best Queen Victoria Quotes

[the Doctor, Rose, and Queen Victoria are trying to escape through a window at the Torchwood Estate, where a werewolf is chasing them]
Sir: Excuse my manners, ma'am, but I shall go first, the better to assist her majesty's egress.
Queen: A noble sentiment, my Sir Walter Raleigh.
The: Yeah, any chance you could hurry it up?

The: Come sir! You promised us a tale of nightmares.
Queen: Indeed. Since my husband's death I find myself with more of a taste for supernatural fiction.
The: You must miss him.
Queen: Very much. Or completely. And that's the charm of a ghost story, isn't it? The scares and the chills, that's just for children but the hope of some contact with the great beyond, we all want some message from that place. It's the Creator's greatest mystery that we're allowed no such consolation. The dead stay silent and we must wait. Come! Begin your tale sir Robert. There is a chill in the air, the wind is hollowing through the eaves, tell us of monsters.

Queen: What exactly... I pray, tell me, someone, please... What exactly is that creature?
The: You'd call it a werewolf, but technically it's more of a lupine-wavelength haemovariform...

Queen: And please excuse the naked girl.
Rose: Sorry.
The: She's a feral child. I bought her for sixpence in old London Town. It's was her or the Elephant Man, so...
Rose: Thinks he's funny but I'm so not amused.

Queen: [Rose and the Doctor kneel before Queen Victoria who is armed with a sword] By the power invested in me by the Church and the state, I dub thee
[taps the sword on the Doctor's shoulders]
Queen: Sir Doctor of Tardis. By the power invested in me by the Church and the state, I dub thee
[does the same for Rose]
Queen: Dame Rose of the Powell Estate. You may stand.
The: [Rose and the Doctor stand up] Many thanks, Ma'am.
Rose: Thanks. They're never gonna believe this back home.
The: Your Majesty, you said last night about receiving no message from the Great Beyond. I think your husband cut that diamond to save your life. He's protecting you even now, Ma'am, from beyond the grave.
Queen: [sternly] Indeed, then you may think on this, also; that I am *not* amused.
Rose: [jubilantly] Yes!
[the Doctor sighs at having lost his bet with Rose]
Queen: Not *remotely* amused.
[the Doctor and Rose straighten their faces]
Queen: And henceforth... I banish you.
The: [confused] I'm sorry?
Queen: I have rewarded you, Sir Doctor, and now you are exiled from this empire, never to return.
[she steps towards Rose and the Doctor]
Queen: I don't know what you are, the two of you, or where you're from, but I know that you consort with stars and magic, and think it fun. But your world is steeped in terror and blasphemy and death, and I will not allow it. You will leave these shores and you will reflect, I hope, on how you came to stray so far from all that is good, and how much longer you may survive this terrible life.
[she briskly steps away from them]
Queen: Now, leave my world and never return!

Queen: I take it, Sir, that you halted my train to bring me here
Father: We have waited so long for one of your journeys to coincide with the moon.
Queen: Then you have waited in vain. After six attempts on my life,
[she reaches into her clutch-bag and pulls out a pistol, aiming it at him]
Queen: I am hardly unprepared.
Father: Oh, I don't think so, woman.
Queen: The correct form of address is Your Majesty.
[she shoots]

Rose: Is that the Koh-i-noor?
The: Oh yes. The greatest diamond in the world.
Queen: Given to me as the spoils of war. Perhaps its legend is now coming true. It is said that whoever owns it must surely die.
The: Well, that's true of anything if you wait long enough.