I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIIt’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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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For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God’s love, as we strive daily to become better people.
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Think what we would have missed if we had never … used a mobile phone or surfed the Net — or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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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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[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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You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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