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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIWhat were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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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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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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I should like to be a horse.
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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 been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally.
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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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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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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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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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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
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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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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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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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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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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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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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