Elizabeth Ii Quotes
Collection of top 52 famous quotes about Elizabeth Ii
Elizabeth Ii Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Elizabeth Ii quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
— Queen Elizabeth II
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
— Kingman Brewster Jr.
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.
— Queen Elizabeth II
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.
— Queen Elizabeth II
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
— Queen Elizabeth II
It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
— Queen Elizabeth II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
— Queen Elizabeth II
I have to be seen to be believed.
— Queen Elizabeth II
I hope people will think very carefully about the future,
— Queen Elizabeth II
When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.
— Kate Williams
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
— Queen Elizabeth II
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.
— Queen Elizabeth II
[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.
— Queen Elizabeth II
They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
— Queen Elizabeth II
[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.
— Queen Elizabeth II
High time they put the RAF in kilts.
— Elizabeth Wein
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
— Queen Elizabeth II
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 II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
— Queen Elizabeth II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
— Queen Elizabeth II
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.
— Elizabeth Berg
The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.
— Hans Koning
The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm.
— Elizabeth Berg
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
— Queen Elizabeth II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
— Queen Elizabeth II
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
— Queen Elizabeth II
The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.
— Johann Hari
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation
— Queen Elizabeth II
For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
— Queen Elizabeth II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
— Queen Elizabeth II
I should like to be a horse.
— Queen Elizabeth II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
— Queen Elizabeth II
I looked up the word "scandal" in my dictionary last night. No wonder there has been such a fuss.
— Paula M. Hunter
Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt (Whither right and glory lead)
— Elizabeth II
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
— Queen Elizabeth II
It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
— Queen Elizabeth II
Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
— Queen Elizabeth II
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
— Queen Elizabeth II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
— Elizabeth II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
— Queen Elizabeth II
[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
— Queen Elizabeth II
It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
— Queen Elizabeth II
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
— Queen Elizabeth II
People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?
— Elizabeth Berg
You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.
— Queen Elizabeth II
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.
— Queen Elizabeth II
[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.
— Queen Elizabeth II
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.
— Queen Elizabeth II
Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead?
— Elizabeth Berg