[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIWhat were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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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 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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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
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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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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 declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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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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The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
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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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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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