Queen Elizabeth II Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Cowards falter, but the danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

It's all to do with the training, you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

I hope people will think very carefully about the future.

It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stays all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I believe that there is great fear in our generation of being labelled as priggish.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

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