Queen Elizabeth II Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Working Together, Stronger, Lessons

  Queen Elizabeth II's Dublin Castle Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2011.

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

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Peace, Form, Cases

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 July 2010

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• For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.

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  Christmas, Christian, Prayer

  "How the Queen - the 'last Christian monarch' - has made faith her message" by Catherine Pepinster, www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2017.

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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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  Husband, Years, Debt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Believe, Our Generation, Generations

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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

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Love, Life, Family

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• To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

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  Sympathy, Past, History

  "Gerry Adams: Queen's Ireland regret not enough", www.cnn.com. May 19, 2011.

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

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  Soccer, Football, Games

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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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  Funny, Family, Queens

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

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  Important, Answers, Formal

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• The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

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  Political, Politics, Constitution

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

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  Eggs, Breakfast, Breakfast Being Important

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

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  Aunt, Royal, Happens

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• Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

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  Thinking, Phones, Talking

  Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 21 Nov. 1997

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• In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. 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. ... 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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  Running, Lonely, Adversity

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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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  Impossible, Lost, Right Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Portraits, Teeth, Sitting

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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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  Queens, Years, Grace And Mercy

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

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  Race, Years, Land

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Trouble

  Speech at Guildhall, London, 24 Nov. 1992

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

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  War, Europe, Suffering

  "Queen: both sides suffered in the war" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2004.

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

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  Baby, Pregnancy, Ready

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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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  Doors, Royalty, Bedroom

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• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

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  Christmas, Mother, Baby

  Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas Day Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 25, 2012.

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• 1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.

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  Years, Looks, Pleasure

  1992 Speech at the Guildhall, 24 Nov.

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