Queen Elizabeth High

Famous quotes containing the words queen, elizabeth and/or high:

    “Half-opening her lips to the frost’s morning sigh, how strangely the rose has smiled on a swift-fleeting day of September!
    How audacious it is to advance in stately manner before the blue-tit fluttering in the shrubs that have long lost their leaves, like a queen with the spring’s greeting on her lips;
    to bloom with steadfast hope that, parted from the cold flower-bed, she may be the last to cling, intoxicated, to a young hostess’s breast.”
    —Afanasi Fet (1820–1892)

    “Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.”
    —Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915)

    “By a high star our course is set,
    Our end is Life. Put out to sea.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)