Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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I should like to be a horse.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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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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[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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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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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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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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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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The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
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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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