23 the Queen Mother Elizabeth Quotes

the Queen Mother Elizabeth quotes

1. 'We'd have to go self-service.'

2. 'Whatever would American tourists think?'

3. 'Is it just me or are pensioners getting younger these days?'

4. 'Is that wise, darling? Remember you have to reign all afternoon.'

5. 'I hadn't realised I enjoyed that reputation. But as I do, perhaps you could make it a large one.'

6. 'The chopper has changed my life as conclusively as it did Anne Boleyn's.'

7. 'Oh, I understand that perfectly. That's how we feel in Scotland too, but the English won't allow it.'

8. Canadian veteran: Are you Scotch or English? Elizabeth: I'm Canadian!

9. 'I wouldn't if I were you, Noel; they count them before they put them out.'

10. 'When one of you young queens has finished, can you bring this old queen a drink?'

11. 'Not very romantic.'

12. 'Who are you supposed to be, dear? Are you Daddy or the Mad Hatter?'

13. 'I'll polish it off myself.'

14. Whilst playing cards,

15. 'Was this yours? Oh, could you take it?'

16. 'But I love communists!'

17. 'The princesses could not possibly leave without me; I wouldn't leave the King, and the King will never leave under any circumstances.'

18. 'I am almost glad we have been bombed. Now I feel I can look the East End in the face.'

19. 'The only other man who has ever done that to me was my husband.'

20. 'We loved him.'

21. 'Never trust them, never trust them. They can't be trusted.'

22. If [Winston] Churchill is the man in Europe I must fear most, then surely she is the woman I have most to fear of in Europe.

23. [She should be] Hung, drawn and...quartered...hung in diamonds, drawn in a coach, and...quartered in the best house in the land.