Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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I should like to be a horse.
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I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally.
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.
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