We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
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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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.
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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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1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
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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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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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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy.
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[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
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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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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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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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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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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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