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.
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
I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.
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.
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
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.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.
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.
They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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.
[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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.
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.
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.
It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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.
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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