Top 69 Quotes & Sayings by Queen Elizabeth II - Page 2

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

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.

It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.

This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.