Famous quotes containing the words queen, elizabeth and/or country:
“Madame dEstampes 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 (15331603)
“...we avoid hospitals because ... theyll kill you there. They overtreat you. And when they see how old you are, and that you still have a mind, they treat you like a curiosity: like Exhibit A and Exhibit B. Like, Hey. nurse, come on over here and looky-here at this old woman, shes in such good shape.... . Most of the time they dont even treat you like a person, just an object.”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)
“Don: Im not going near that country club.
Wick: Why not?
Don: Theyre all a bunch of hypocrites. I dont like to be whispered aboutLook whos here from New York, the Birnam brothers. Or rather the nurse and the invalid.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)