Quotes by Queens

My whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me.
Queen Elizabeth II
In my end is my beginning.
Mary Stuart
Fashion exists for women with no taste etiquette for people with no breeding.
Queen Marie of Rumania
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
Queen Elizabeth II
Tis the ignorant who boast.
Carmen Sylva
The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.
Victoria
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
Victoria
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Queen Elizabeth I
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
Victoria
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Queen Elizabeth I
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a King and of a King of England too.
Elizabeth I
It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
Margareth II
Cowards falter but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Queen Elizabeth I
Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
Marie Antoinette
Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Victoria
Nothing's far when one wants to get there.
Queen Marie of Rumania
Prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.
Queen Elizabeth I
Think not, O Mortal, vainly gay.That Thou from Human Woes is free,The bitter cup I drink today,Tomorrow may be drunk by thee.
Jane Grey
I am terrified of being bored.
Marie Antoinette
My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Marie Antoinette
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
Elizabeth I
We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share.
Rania Al-Abdullah
The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.
Elizabeth II
My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
Elizabeth I
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them
Queen Victoria
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
Rania Al-Abdullah
In an era when the regular worthy rhythm of life is less eye-catching than doing something extraordinary, I am reassured that I am merely the second sovereign to celebrate a diamond jubilee.
Elizabeth II
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
Elizabeth I
Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even it
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater
Rania Al-Abdullah
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
Elizabeth I
I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king
Elizabeth I
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette
And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.
Elizabeth I
I say this explicitly, that it is impossible for me to marry. That is the way it is for me. My temper is a mortal enemy to this horrible yoke, which I would not accept, even if I thus would become the ruler of the world.
Christina Queen of Sweden
I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
Elizabeth I
Pardon me if, reading that, I want to laugh, because you want to relieve me of a fear I've never had. I've never thought that, as they say, you eat little children.
Jeanne D'Albret
Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married women slaves.
Christina Queen of Sweden
[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present.
Elizabeth I
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Elizabeth I
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
Elizabeth I
We have come to the determination to die, all of us, rather than abandon our God, and our religion.
Jeanne D'Albret
Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms, mother of two kings? My guts are torn from me, my family is carried off and removed from me. The young king [crown prince Henry, †1183] and the count of Britanny [prince Geoffrey, †1186] sleep in dust, and their most unhappy mother is compelled to be irremediably tormented by the memory of the dead. Two sons remain to my solace, who today survive to punish me, miserable and condemned. King Richard [the Lionheart] is held in chains [in captivity with Emperor Henry VI of Germany]. His brother, John, depletes his kingdom with iron [the sword] and lays it waste with fire. In all things the Lord has turned cruel to me and attacked me with the harshness of his hand. Truly his wrath battles against me: my sons fight amongst themselves, if it is a fight where where one is restrained in chains, the other, adding sorrow to sorrow, undertakes to usurp the kingdom of the exile by cruel tyranny. Good Jesus, who will grant that you protect me in hell and hide me until your fury passes, until the arrows which are in me cease, by which my whole spirit is sucked
Eleanor of Aquitaine
(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)"[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify your Serene Highness with the same kind of affection. And that indeed does not happen because we doubt in any way of your love and honour, but, as often we have testified both in words and writing, that we have never yet conceived a feeling of that kind of affection towards anyone.We therefore beg your Serene Highness again and again that you be pleased to set a limit to your love, that it advance not beyond the laws of friendship for the present nor disregard them in the future. ... We certainly think that if God ever direct our hearts to consideration of marriage we shall never accept or choose any absent husband how powerful and wealthy a Prince soever. But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing. I have always given both to your brother ... and also to your ambassador likewise the same answer with scarcely any variation of the words, that we do not conceive in our heart to take a husband but highly commend this single life, and hope that your Serene Highness will no longer spend time in waiting for us.
Elizabeth I
I love the storm and fear the calm.
Christina Queen of Sweden
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
Elizabeth I
If we still advise we shall never do.
Elizabeth I
I observe and remain silent.
Elizabeth I
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
Elizabeth I
The past can not be cured.
Elizabeth I