I pluck up the goodlisome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory by gathering them together; that so, having tasted their sweetness, I may the less perceive the bitterness of life.
—Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Quotations
Grief is the price we pay for love
—Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Grief, Loss
These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
—Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Birth, Pregnancy
It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
—Queen Elizabeth II
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
—Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Queens, Royalty, Family, Kings
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.
—Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Battle
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
—Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Wisdom
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