Queens Quotes - Page 34

• You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.

  Moss Hart

  Kings, Moustache

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• 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. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.

  Elizabeth I

  People, Wish, Desire

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.337, University of Chicago Press

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• There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.

  Elizabeth I

  Wise, Country, Safety

  Farewell Speech to the House of Commons, en.wikisource.org. November 30, 1601.

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• We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Past, Century

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• If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of a king or of a queen, an ant or a camel, how great then is the mastery which can form as actuality everything which is in all potentiality? Therefore, God, who is able to produce from the most minute piece of matter the similitude of all forms which can be in this world and in infinitely many worlds, is of admirable subtlety.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Kings, Artist, Camels

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• When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

  Florence Welch

  Always Trying, Singing, Palaces

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• I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Admire

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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

  Would Be, Saws, Queen Elizabeth

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• Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

  Prince William

  Boys, Knowing, Seeing

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• My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

  A. N. Wilson

  Book, Writing, Toby

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• It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

  A. N. Wilson

  Kings, Eerie, Perspective

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• But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.

  Debra Winger

  Children, Worry, Worried

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• I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

  will.i.am

  Grandma, Ideas, Royal

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

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• I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Love, Vegas, Drag

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• My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

  John Oliver

  Voice, Sound, Ears

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• The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)

  William Goldman

  Horse, Rain, Love You

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.50, A&C Black

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• In every queen there's a touch of floozy.

  E. B. White

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Believe, Math

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Who knew an elf queen could be so vicious!

  Meg Cabot

  Vicious

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• He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.' Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen.

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, White, House

  Lewis Carroll “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, Lulu.com

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• Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.

  Anne Rice

  Destiny, Evil, Would Be

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• I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Stars, Perfect, Rabbits

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.16, Random House

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• God bless you, my beloved sisters, who stand as the queens in your home, that you may be happy with that happiness which comes of the knowledge that you are loved and honored and treasured.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, May, Beloved

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• in skies of deepening blue the moon, heaven's queen was now afloat

  Colm Toibin

  Moon, Blue, Sky

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• Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

  Tom Robbins

  Christianity, Muse, Goddess

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.62, Bantam

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