What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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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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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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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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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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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.
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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 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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I have to be seen to be believed.
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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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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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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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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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