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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IILike all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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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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I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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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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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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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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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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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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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 has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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