Famous quotes containing the words queen, elizabeth and/or country:
“If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperors son to marry.”
—Elizabeth I (15331603)
“I know our country disposition well;
In Venice they do let God see the pranks
They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience
Is not to leavet undone, but keept unknown.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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