Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Tatchell

It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee.

Pierre Trudeau

Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.

Rabindranath Tagore

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

Queen Rania of Jordan

The job description for a queen changes with the times.

Queen Rania of Jordan

People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Being queen is overrated.

Queen Victoria

The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

Queen Victoria

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

Queen Victoria

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity...

Queen Victoria

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Queen Elizabeth II

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.

Queen Elizabeth II

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

Queen Elizabeth II

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

Puff Daddy

Get money, have fun and treat a woman like she's a queen

Queen Latifah

I have great family and friends that do not treat me like Queen Latifah. We've all grown with this thing, they have sacrificed part of there anonymity; they've had to deal with rumors and things in the paper and they've had to take this ride along with me and they've taken it and we've had a good time.

Queen Latifah

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

Queen Latifah

I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.

Queen Latifah

I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

Queen Latifah

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

Queen Latifah

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

Queen Latifah

Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.

Lady Gregory

Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

Vanessa Paradis

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

V. S. Pritchett

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

Usain Bolt

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

Tasha Alexander

The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!

Stephen King

Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?

Simon Callow

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

Sheila Jackson Lee

I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.

Suzy Kassem

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.

Tony Benn

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

Tony Benn

If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false