Queen Elizabeth Quotes

• A dead body was discovered this week on the grounds of a country estate owned by Queen Elizabeth. The queen said today she hopes this serves as a reminder to anybody on her staff that there is a right way and a wrong way to polish sterling silver.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Queens, Body

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• It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

  Russell Baker

  Queens, Made

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• If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.

  W. H. Auden

  Queens, Character, Home

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• I actually got to perform for Queen Elizabeth, and I got to meet her after the show. She said she thought my performance was beautiful and I got to shake her hand and it was just an incredible moment.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Beautiful, Queens, Hands

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  Samuel Barnett

  Queens, Moving, Order

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• I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything. Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it?

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Queens, People, Looks

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• There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.

  Dinah Washington

  Queens, Oneness, Heaven

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• 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

  Queens, Would Be, Saws

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• She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

  Paul McCartney

  Queens, Rocks, Reign

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• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  Usain Bolt

  Queens, Nice, Sound

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

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• It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.

  Ellen Barkin

  Girl, Queens, New York

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• Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.

  David Cannadine

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

  Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

  Running, Queens, Australia

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• I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

  Macy Gray

  Queens

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• The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Girl, Queens, Mean

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• Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom. She knew she was going to give it to one of her courtiers. These courtiers would then all try to curry her favour. Meanwhile, they would not contribute anything to the product of the kingdom, in fact, they were wasting resources trying to secure a single prize. That, more or less, is rent seeking.

  James M. Buchanan

  Queens, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Queens, Two, Common Purpose

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• We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety. There were old tennis-courts - the Tudor kind where Henry VIII was said to have played; and gardens filled with winter heather, jasmine and yellow chrysanthemums. [...] So that first night together was spent in the ancient bedroom with the tiny leaded paned windows, through which shafts of moonlight touched the room with a dreamlike radiance [...]

  Jean Plaidy

  Country, Queens, Winter

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• This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

  John Aubrey

  Queens, Home, Oxford

  John Aubrey (1962). “Brief lives”

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• The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

  Samuel Smiles

  Queens, Kindness, Heart

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.323

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• It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

  Joseph Addison

  Queens, Taken, Letters

  'The Spectator' no. 221, 13 November 1711.

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• No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hope, Queens, Scandal

  1779 Mr Sneer, of Mr Puff's tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.1.

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• Queen Elizabeth, she's the ultimate hypocrite!

  Chris Jericho

  Queens, Hypocrite, Wwe

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• The personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]... For instance, once she goes - if she's ever going to die, it seems to be questionable - if Charles [of Wales] were there, whether there'd be the same sort of cement is very questionable, I think.

  Bob Hawke

  Queens, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's very easy to underrate her significance. I think she finds the Commonwealth and her position as Head of the Commonwealth infinitely more interesting than being the Queen of England, because she has no significant role in the latter.

  Bob Hawke

  Queens, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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