I should like to be a horse.
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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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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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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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
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I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
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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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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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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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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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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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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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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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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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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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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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