Windsor Quotes

• This is the short and the long of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Long, Merry

  "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Book by William Shakespeare, 1602.

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• Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

  William Shakespeare

  Oysters, World, Mines

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. 2

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• Good luck lies in odd numbers.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Good Luck, Numbers

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 2

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• They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

  Barbara Windsor

  Acting, Actors, Done

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• If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Great Love, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.30

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• Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 1, sc. 4, l. [5]

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• I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.

  Barbara Windsor

  Thinking, Study, Bounce

  "Barbara Windsor reveals her secret friendship with Amy Winehouse... and the real reason she left EastEnders" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. September 07, 2012.

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• I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.

  Barbara Windsor

  Husband, Sleep, Thinking

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• I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.

  Barbara Windsor

  Taken, Acting, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Names, Dickens

  1597-8 Mistress Page.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 3, sc.2, l.16.

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• There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

  Mary Kingsley

  Ice, Fishing, Circles

  Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.75, Routledge

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• You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

  Cleveland Amory

  Acceptance, Stubborn, Facts

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• Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.

  Greta Garbo

  Children, Husband, Men

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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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• One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place.

  Margaret Visser

  Light, Needs, Cost

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

  A. N. Wilson

  Believe, House, Church

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• Thanks to the FedDev Ontario funding we were able to get a number of key initiatives underway to mitigate the potential negative economic impact of the Heinz closure. With this additional funding we will continue to be in high gear within the food processing sector to continue with business retention, expansion and attraction activities in the Windsor-Essex region.

  Sandra Pupatello

  Numbers, Impact, Keys

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• I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

  Jenny Eclair

  People, World, Admire

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• Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom

  Tahir Shah

  Reading, Doors, Water

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 17, 2013

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• I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden - they're legends in their own lifetimes aren't they?

  Sophie Thompson

  Looks, Legends, Soap

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• Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is lost when a monarchy is abolished. If buckingham palace and windsor castle were transformed into museums, if one politician competed against another for president of the republic, Britain would be a sadder and less interesting place. Our politicians are not men such as could challenge more than a thousand years of history.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Men, Museums, Years

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• With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area.

  Sue Kelly

  Responsibility, Airports, Police

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• I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Sorry, Towers, Behinds

  Karl Philipp Moritz (1886). “Travels in England in 1782”

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• My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Morning, Clever, Son

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.63, BoD – Books on Demand

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• People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.

  Prince Philip

  Fire, Water, People

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