My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III 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.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
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Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
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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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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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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.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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