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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• Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Queens, Thrones, Dinner

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• The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.

  Hans Koning

  Queens, Age, Entertainment

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• Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Queens, Years

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• I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Queens, Singing, Laundry

  "Cyndi Lauper Was Never About That Washing Machine-and-a-Crown Life". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.elle.com. February 10, 2016.

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• Can I tell you who is the most important fashion icon in the world? Queen Elizabeth of England. Think about that. She has never put her foot anywhere wrong and always looks fantastic.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Queens, Thinking

  "The Evolution of Elegance". Interview with Renee Zellweger, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 15, 2016.

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• Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Queens, Real

  "The Evolution of Elegance". Interview with Renee Zellweger, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 15, 2016.

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• I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was going on in her castle; she had spies.

  Martha Ronk

  Queens, Eye, Garden

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• [Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands!

  Vanessa Kirby

  Queens, Hands, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the Commonwealth: the role of the Queen [Elizabeth II]. I had absolutely just enormous respect for her as leader of the Commonwealth. You could talk to her about any of the fifty-one countries of the Commonwealth and you could have an intelligent conversation with her about the economics, the politics. She really immersed herself in the Commonwealth.

  Bob Hawke

  Country, Queens, Intelligent

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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