For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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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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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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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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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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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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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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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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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[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 should like to be a horse.
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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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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. …
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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