Queen Elizabeth II Quotes

True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

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.

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.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

I have to be seen to be believed.

I hope people will think very carefully about the future,

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

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.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

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.

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

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.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

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.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation

For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

I should like to be a horse.