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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThese wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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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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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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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 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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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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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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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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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 lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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