Quotes About Elizabeth

Best intentions are not the best things in the world to marry upon.

The history of most fictions would be far stranger than the fictions themselves ; but it would be a dark and sad chronicle.

Some days one has no choice but to deal with Society's filth....Our world isn't getting any better--or cleaner Elizabeth. I don't know how people can treat one another the way they do. Or themselves, for that matter.

Elizabeth's mother would probably hate the sight o] him. He'd only remind her of the happy months last summer, before he had sailed.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.

WILLIAMS: The phrase, of course, is a variation of a line from the song MacArthur Park. Any idea why the terrorists picked that particular song, Elizabeth? BURGER: Brian, one theory is that it was chosen specifically to demoralize the United States, because it gets stuck in your head and everybody hates it.

The child Elizabeth is wrapped tightly in layers, her fists hidden: just as well, she looks as if she would strike you. Ginger bristles poke from beneath her cap, and her eyes are vigilant; he has never seen an infant in the crib look so ready to take offense. Lady Bryan says, "Do you think she looks like the king?" He hesitates, trying to be fair to both parties. "As much as a little maid ought.

Never in her life had Elizabeth known a more peculiarly constituted woman.

Elizabeth for the whole of Edward's reign, never wore the rich jewels and clothes left her by her father. Instead, she offered a more virtuous example than the writing of Saints Peter and Paul, her maidenly apparel making the ladies of the court ashamed to be dressed and painted like peacocks.

Here ends, 'Two Plays for Dancers,' by William Butler Yeats. Four hundred copies of this book have been printed and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats on paper made in Ireland, at the Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, in the County of Dublin, Ireland. Finished on the tenth day of January in the year nineteen hundred and nineteen.

I love being a parliamentarian. I love it but I don't like politics. And I hate elections.

As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

As an Elizabeth native, I believe it is my duty to give back to my community. Our youth is our future, and it truly takes a village to raise a child.

up and she fell instantly silent. St. Claire glanced from Elizabeth's frosty glare to August's troubled gaze. He felt Celestine's

Queen Elizabeth II is in fact Queen Elizabeth I and II. The reason for this is that the union between England and Scotland did not take place until 1603 - after Elizabeth I had ruled in England; therefore until 1952, there had never been a Queen Elizabeth of Scotland!

Where is the home of the monarchy in England? If you said Buckingham Palace, you're wrong! Whilst that is the home of Queen Elizabeth II - and has been the residence of choice since Queen Victoria's reign, the Royal Court has always remained a St James's Palace - a few steps down the road!

in exchange for which she would be recognized as Elizabeth's heir apparent.

ENGLISH POLICY toward Mary was beginning to fall apart. Elizabeth was losing her nerve.

he first had to persuade Elizabeth and many of his own colleagues that an armed intervention

Like Elizabeth, she enjoyed two "courses" at both dinner and supper

Elizabeth and her chief adviser were repeatedly at loggerheads.