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)

    “O Queen of air and darkness,
    I think ‘tis truth you say,
    And I shall die to-morrow;
    But you will die to-day.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)