For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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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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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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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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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[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 British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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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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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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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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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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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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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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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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