[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.
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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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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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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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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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 has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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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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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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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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They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. …
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