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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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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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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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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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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.
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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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I have to be seen to be believed.
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It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.
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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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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 perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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