Elizabeth II Famous Quotes
"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."
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 cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else-I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
"It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains."
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.
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. (After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit)
Elizabeth II Quotations
"Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly -- hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear."
Joan Rivers
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."
Cesare Lombroso
"King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea."
Coming to America
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Carmen de Monteflores
"Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on."
Anderson H Scruggs
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings
A white wall is the fool's paper.
French Proverb
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Cecil Baxter
"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . ."
Isaac Asimov