Queen Quotes

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

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.

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

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

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

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

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

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.

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

In my end is my beginning

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe

Just close your eyes—and think of England.

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

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

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

I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.

Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

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

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.

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

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

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

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.

No one provokes me with impunity.

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

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company

She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks.

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.

I should like to be a horse.

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.