Queens Quotes - Page 16

• I'm just getting better and better. It's just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I'm not a queen bee. I'm a king bee.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Kings, Get Better

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• 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

  Fun, Real, Play

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Black is the queen of colours.

  Auguste Rodin

  Black, Colour

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• In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

  Louis Garrel

  France, Made

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• Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Kings, Sacrifice, Winning

  "John Rhys-davies on Indiana Jones and Almost Passing on Lord of the Rings". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 18, 2012.

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• That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Jobs, Powerful, Theatre

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• Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Mixtures, Actresses, Victoria

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• Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;
  She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Needs, Royalty

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Poems”, p.317, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Character, Errors

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.95

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• Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Tyrants, World, Opinion

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.203

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• Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
  [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

  Blaise Pascal

  Use, World, Opinion

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• Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Kings, Fear, Sleep

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• The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Kings, Royalty, Compare

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Mother, Kings

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• the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.

  Catherine the Great

  Running, Sweet, Children

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• You don't know who the next group is that's unpopular. The Bill of Rights isn't for the prom queen. The bill of rights isn't for the high school quarterback. The Bill of Rights is for the least among us. The Bill of Rights is for minorities. The Bill of Rights is for those who have minority opinions. 

  Rand Paul

  School, Nsa, Rights

  Rand Paul's Speech on the PATRIOT Act and Government Surveillance, www.c-span.org. May 20, 2015.

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• I can't think of anybody we toured with that had more impact on us than Queen.

  Phil Ehart

  Thinking, Impact, I Can

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

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• My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a different direction. I built Trump Tower in Manhattan, the most luxurious building in the world. It's not going to be easy for my son, but maybe it shouldn't be easy. Life is, after all, a test.

  Donald Trump

  Father, Son, Different

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Still and pale
  Thou movest in thy silver veil,
  Queen of the night! the filmy shroud
  Of many a mild, transparent cloud
  Hides, yet adorns thee.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Moon, Night, Clouds

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1859). “The poetical works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.10

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• The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

  Queen Victoria

  Thinking, Russia, Government

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• [To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

  Queen Victoria

  Speaking Up, Bishops, Married

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• A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

  Harriet Martineau

  America, Evil, Brain

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.317, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

  Rachel

  Writing, Dust, Pyramids

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• The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

  Derek Jarman

  Cities, Good Man, Useless

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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