It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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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Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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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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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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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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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.
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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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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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