Quotes About Elizabeth

I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

The first woman who spent any amount of time aboard this ship was Elizabeth de Obregon, whom we salvaged from the wrack of the Manila Galleon at the same time as him who burned it, one Edouard de Gex." "He's dead, by the way." "Again? I am glad to hear it.

What are you working on? Elizabeth asked. Nate could hear her tapping a pencil on her desk. She took notes during their conversations. He didn't know what she did with the notes, but it bothered him. I have a lecture at the sanctuary in four days. Why, why had he told her? Why? Now she'd rattle down the mountain in her ancient Mercedes that looked like a Nazi staff car, sit in the audience, and ask all the questions that she knew in advance he couldn't answer.

Although Elizabeth had a horror of being embalmed and directed her remains to be wrapped up in cerecloth (waxed linen), sources suggest she probably was embalmed, as this was standard practice for royalty at the time.

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

Good morning, Lord Vickery, she [Lady Elizabeth Scarlet] said. "The early fortune hunter catches the heiress, eh?

Elizabeth crossed the Sargasso Sea without incident

Events moved on, and in July 1579, Elizabeth was nearly assassinated as she traveled on a barge along the Thames.

Elizabeth, and especially Francis Drake, whom Mendoza recognized as the chief threat to Spain's imperial ambitions.

He later had the pleasure of presenting those "goodly great emeralds" to Queen Elizabeth.)

Elizabeth sat for a portrait designed to capture the grandeur of the occasion. In the painting

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

A man is so in the way in the house.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. (Elizabeth Bennett)

And so ended his affection, said Elizabeth impatiently. There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love, said Darcy.

That is very true, replied Elizabeth, and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Really, Mr. Collins,' cried Elizabeth with some warmth, 'you puzzle me exceedingly. If what I have hitherto said can appear to you in the form of encouragement, I know not how to express my refusal in such a way as to convince you of its being one.

dearest, loveliest Elizabeth [...] By you, I was properly humbled.

Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.

Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her [Elizabeth].