(The) Winter Queen may refer to:
- Elizabeth of Bohemia, also known as Elizabeth Stuart, queen 1619-1620 in Bohemia; this includes several books written about this person having "The Winter Queen" as (main part of) the title
- The Winter Queen (novel), a novel by Boris Akunin, original title Азазель (Azazel), from the Erast Fandorin series
Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or queen:
“You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddest and most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,—in winter expecting the sun of spring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round
Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly.
A king and a queen are wandering there, and the sound
Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind
With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone by....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)