You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II[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.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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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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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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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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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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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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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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