Queen Elizabeth Quotes
Collection of top 75 famous quotes about Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth Quotes & Sayings
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True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
— Queen Elizabeth II
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
How reassuring. - Queen Elizabeth, when told during a walking tour of Scotland that she looks like the Queen
— Kate Petrella
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
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
— Queen Elizabeth II
You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
— Imelda Marcos
There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.
— Geoffrey Rush
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
It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.
— Russell Baker
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
— Elizabeth I
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
— Queen Elizabeth II
If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
— Usain Bolt
I feel like the queen of the oven! I am the Queen of all oven-dry! Master of heat! You may now address me as "Your Royal Highness"!
— Elizabeth Duivenvoorde
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
— Queen Elizabeth II
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
— Queen Elizabeth II
I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.
— Cyndi Lauper
The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.
— Hans Koning
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
Rich women live at such a distance from life that very often they never see their money - the Queen, they say, for instance, never carries a purse.
— Elizabeth Bowen
A light comes on in his eyes. "Sure, why not? A date with Queen Elizabeth." He smiles.
— Cynthia Hand
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation
— Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth, just like our queen. I'm Gabriel Storm.
— Magda Alexander
Queen Elizabeth, in a much-cited quote, faithfully bathed once a month "whether she needs it or no.
— Bill Bryson
I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
— Macy Gray
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
There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.
— Dinah Washington
my own name. Do you know what Queen Elizabeth wrote after 9/11? "Grief is the price we pay for love.
— Heidi Joy Tretheway
I should like to be a horse.
— Queen Elizabeth II
Id her beware of French principles, which had led the French to cut off their king's and queen's heads.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
I looked up the word "scandal" in my dictionary last night. No wonder there has been such a fuss.
— Paula M. Hunter
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
— Queen Elizabeth II
When she realized all attention was on her, she slowed. "Oh." She gave them a Queen Elizabeth wave and said, "Play on.
— Kresley Cole
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
Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled?
— Jeane Westin
I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.
— Elizabeth Taylor
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
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
— 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
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
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
If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
— Vivienne Westwood
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
— Elizabeth I
My guitar's name was Liz. As in, short for Elizabeth, Queen of England. She was a lady.
Don't judge. — Rachael Wade
Don't judge. — Rachael Wade
Queen Elizabeth, she's the ultimate hypocrite!
— Chris Jericho
[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.
— Elizabeth I
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.
— Queen Elizabeth II
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
— 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
There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.
— Elizabeth Arden