Quotes About Elizabeth

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought. Elizabeth who goes by her middle name

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

Kenya has deep resonances for the royals: it was here, after all, that the young Princess Elizabeth heard of the death of her father, George VI. From that moment, she was Queen.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

I ran for parliament in 1980 as an independent against Allan J. MacEachen.

My dream mixed-tag match has always been against the 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth.

Discontent," Father Maturin said, enunciating the word with a strange vigor and looking straight at Elizabeth, "may be God's catapult, His way of saying: 'Go and try yourself now.

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves.

So what do you think, Miss Bennet? Will you come to Pemberley?" He Spoke quietly over her shoulder; she hadn't realized he was so close. Feeling a mischievous impulse, likely from her nervousness at his proximity, she said the first thing that came to her mind. "It is tolerable, I suppose, but not hadsome enough to tempt me." Mr. Darcy's face went from shocked and angry, to hurt and confused, and finally to understanding as her words sunk in.

the tone adopted by the Dowager Marchioness of Polbrook and the acerbic nature of her remarks was promising.

An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.

I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.

Pomegranates you may cut deep down the middle and see into, but not hearts,—so why should I try and speak?

It was during the stay at Pisa, and early in the year 1847, that Mr. Browning first became acquainted with his wife's 'Sonnets from the Portuguese.' Written during the course of their courtship and engagement, they were not shown even to him until some months after their marriage.

It is well worth reading, and worth wondering over. D'Israeli, who is a man of genius, has written, nevertheless, books which will live longer, and move deeper. But everybody should read 'Coningsby.' It is a sign of the times.

And then people ask me what I mean in [words torn out]. I hope you were among the six who understood or half understood my 'Poet's Vow' — that is, if you read it at all. Uncle Hedley made a long pause at the first part. But I have been reading, too, Sheridan Knowles's play of the 'Wreckers.' It is full of passion and pathos, and made me shed a great many tears.

If you can read novels, and you have too much sense not to be fond of them, read 'Villette.' The scene of the greater part of it is in Belgium, and I think it a strong book. 'Ruth,' too, by Mrs. Gaskell, the author of 'Mary Barton,' has pleased me very much.

To prove to you that I who 'used to care' for poetry do so still, and that I have not been absolutely idle lately, an 'Athenaeum' shall be sent to you containing a poem on the subject of the removal of Napoleon's ashes. It is a fitter subject for you than for me. Napoleon is no idol of mine. I never made a 'setting sun' of him.

I was just the one who upgraded her software and made sure that nothing broke down. If anyone was equipped for the job, it was me, the professional computational linguist.

Peter handed me a glass of wine—my own Neon White Red,

She laughed, a cat's soundless amusement, and nodded thanks.

Cynric did not make merely human errors. Her mistakes were more on the epic scale, her failings those of demigods.