Queen Elizabeth Country

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

    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)

    When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
    —Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915)

    It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)