C. Elizabeth Quotes

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

When you find what you love, you do it. That's it.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world.

Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me

Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Whoso loves, believes in the impossible

Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things.

Let us ask God to make us true in our love, to make us sacrificial beings, for it seems to me that sacrifice is only love put into action.

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.