The Queen - Queen Elizabeth II

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

“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
—Elizabeth II (b. 1926)

“If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

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