Queens Quotes - Page 21

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

  Louis Garrel

  France, Made

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• L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Imagination, Provinces

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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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• People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen.And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems.

  Alexander Rybak

  Dream, Stupid, People

  Song: Funny Little World, Album: Fairytales, 2009

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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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• The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It's camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever seriously consider it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Suicide, Drama, Problem

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.21, Chronicle Books

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• As the saying goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. I guess playing Hera [in Wonder Woman] means that I'm, well, not only Queen of the Gods, I'm better than he is!

  Marg Helgenberger

  Mean, Men, Wonder Woman

  "David McCallum and Marg Helgenberger Take on Zeus and Hera in the Wonder Woman Animated Film". movieweb.com. December 17, 2008.

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• The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heaven, Reign, Clients

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• It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'

  Amelia Warner

  Palaces, Would Be, Get Up

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• Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

  Brian May

  Dream, Song, Ambition

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• Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

  Kelly Link

  Average, North Carolina, Mars

  "Magic for Beginners". Book by Kelly Link, 2005.

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• I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Sex, Thinking, Matter

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

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• I'm trying to paint an underwater ocean scene. It's just not working. My queen angelfish is supposed to have these bright yellow eyes and electric-blue stripes along the edge of her fin. Instead, it looks like I'm trying to paint a fried egg with some blue bacon. Maybe I can pass it off as postmodern.

  Susane Colasanti

  Ocean, Eye, Blue

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.54, Penguin

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