(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:
“Every poem of value must have a residue [of language].... It cannot be exhausted because our lives are not long enough to do so. Indeed, in the greatest poetry, the residue may seem to increase as our experience increases—that is, as we become more sensitive to the particular ignitions in its language. We return to a poem not because of its symbolic [or sociological] value, but because of the waste, or subversion, or difficulty, or consolation of its provision.”
—William Logan, U.S. educator. “Condition of the Individual Talent,” The Sewanee Review, p. 93, Winter 1994.
“Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one’s companion.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)