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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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Think what we would have missed if we had never … used a mobile phone or surfed the Net — or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.
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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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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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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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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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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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