Queen Elizabeth Country

Famous quotes containing the words queen elizabeth, queen and/or country:

    “Richard. Harp not on that string, madam, that is past.
    Queen Elizabeth. Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Madame d’Estampes and Madame de Valentinois make me fear that I should be only honoured by my husband as a queen and not loved by him as a woman.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “The anarchy, assassination, and sacrilege by which the Kingdom of France has been disgraced, desolated, and polluted for some years past cannot but have excited the strongest emotions of horror in every virtuous Briton. But within these days our hearts have been pierced by the recital of proceedings in that country more brutal than any recorded in the annals of the world.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)