Virgin Queen

Famous quotes containing the words virgin queen, virgin and/or queen:

“Sir Charles: Are you?
Princess Dala: What?
Sir Charles: What they call you—the Virgin Queen?
Princess Dala: I’m not a queen.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)

“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 (1838–1918)

“I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)