Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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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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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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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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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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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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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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Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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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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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
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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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[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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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
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For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God’s love, as we strive daily to become better people.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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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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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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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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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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The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
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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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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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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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