Quotes About Queen
Esplodere? disse la regina. Ma era Anita Brookner!. Il giovane, decisamente poco ossequioso, disse che magari la sicurezza l'aveva scambiato per un ordigno. E la regina: Ma certamente. Perché lo è. Un libro è un ordigno per infiammare l'immaginazione.
~ Alan Bennett
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Exploded?' said the Queen. 'But it was Anita Brookner.' The young man, who seemed remarkably undeferential, said security may have thought it was a device. The Queen said: 'Yea. That is exactly what it is. A book is a device to ignite the imagination.' The footman said: 'Yes, ma'am.
~ Alan Bennett
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The preservation of the cathedral tradition had huge significance for the future of Anglicanism, and it may be Queen Elizabeth's chief original contribution to her Church.
~ Diarmaid MacCulloch
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Churchill once explained... 'a great battle is lost: parliament turns out the Government. A great battle is won- crowds cheer the Queen.
~ Jeremy Paxman
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Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy
~ Jess Lourey
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Who would dare attack such a king?" "Who would want to?" Celie agreed. "He'd probably give them a puppy and win them right over." "I'm sure if the situation were serious enough, he'd give them at least two dogs," Queen Celina said.
~ Jessica Day George
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If only I could have been a fairytale queen, in a beautiful palace, with nothing to do but dance and be beautiful. Now I am a queen of darkness and terror.
~ Jessica Day George
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Oh, my queen, you are being the most very!" King Kurlath laughed. "But" - he held u p a cautionary finger - "she is also saying a truth. Even still do the insides of me go to and fro, as they went to and fro this yesterday at the river!" He shook his head. "Were they to go to and fro at this harbor, there would soon be to, and never fro!
~ Jessica Day George
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Sa Majesté, la reine Marie, seconde épouse du Roi, première dans son coeur
~ Eugene Ionesco
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Windsors genuinely believe that they will be restored to the throne under German influence: he will become a sort of Gauleiter and Wallis a queen.
~ Andrew Lownie
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In her desperation she consulted Penny Thornton, an astrologer introduced to her by Sarah Ferguson. Diana admitted to Penny that she couldn't bear the pressure of her position any longer and that she had to leave the system. "One day you will be allowed out but you will be allowed out as opposed to divorcing," Penny told her, confirming Diana's existing opinion that she would never become queen.
~ Andrew Morton
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Diana said: "Guess what, I'm going on a shooting weekend to Sandringham." Lucinda replied: "Gosh, perhaps you are going to be the next queen of England." As she wrung out a cloth which she was using to mop the floor Diana joked: "Beryl, I doubt it. Can you see me swanning around in kid gloves and a ballgown?
~ Andrew Morton
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Yet Hardenberg was kept on in secret government service by King Frederick William and his fiercely anti-Napoleonic wife, the beautiful and independent-minded Queen Louise, daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg, not least in order to keep diplomatic channels open to Russia.
~ Andrew Roberts
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Pump up your bagpipes and delight our ears with decent martial music. With your permission, noble Calanthe!" "Oh mother of mine," whispered the queen to Geralt, raising her eyes to the vault for a moment in silent resignation. But she nodded her permission, smiling openly and kindly.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
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Queen Calanthe wants her to marry someone from Skellige; an alliance with the islanders would mean a lot to us.' 'Why them?' 'Those they're allied with aren't attacked as often as others.' 'A good reason.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
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In Cintra, as she remembered, an attractive man was one whose head reached the ceiling, whose shoulders were as broad as a doorway, who swore like a dwarf, roared like a buffalo and stank at thirty paces of horses, sweat and beer, regardless of what time of day or night it was. Men who did not correspond to this description were not recognised by Queen Calanthe's chambermaids as worthy of sighs and gossip.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
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~ Andrzej Sapkowski
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She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her queen and she hit me." Though, he recalled, not sufficiently brutally to require that he tie her wrists together with his belt, force her to kneel and beat her until she toppled over sideways. She raised a strangely joyous face to him; the pallor of her skin and the almost miraculous lustre of her eyes startled and even awed him.
~ Angela Carter
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Now all shun the village below the chateau in which the beautiful queen of the vampires helplessly perpetuates her ancestral crimes.
~ Angela Carter
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Star and Ariel looked at each other, aghast. The coven was about to burn two kids from the Castle. What would the Queen have to say about that? It would be goodbye to their free food at Wizard Sandwiches for sure.
~ Angie Sage
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Oi!" came a yell from a steward. "Getoffthecourse!" On race day, respect for the Queen came second to the sanctity of the track.
~ Angie Sage
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My sister, Jenna," Nicko said to Tod with a smile. "Very undignified behavior for a Queen, if you ask me.
~ Angie Sage
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Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse 'Tootsie' story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie.
~ Robin Leach
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Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
~ Charles Perrault
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