Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III 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.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
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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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True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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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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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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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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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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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 myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II