(The) Winter Queen may refer to:
- Elizabeth of Bohemia, also known as Elizabeth Stuart, queen 1619-1620 in Bohemia; this includes several books written about this person having "The Winter Queen" as (main part of) the title
- The Winter Queen (novel), a novel by Boris Akunin, original title Азазель (Azazel), from the Erast Fandorin series
Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or queen:
“When I was a bachelor, I lived by myself
And I worked at the weaver’s trade;
The only, only, thing that I ever did wrong
Was to woo a fair young maid.
I wooed her in the winter time,
And in the summer too;
And the only, only thing that I ever did wrong
Was to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew.”
—Unknown. The Foggy, Foggy Dew (l. 1–8)
“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)