Winter Queen

(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:

    We know of no scripture which records the pure benignity of the gods on a New England winter night. Their praises have never been sung, only their wrath deprecated. The best scripture, after all, records but a meagre faith. Its saints live reserved and austere. Let a brave, devout man spend the year in the woods of Maine or Labrador, and see if the Hebrew Scriptures speak adequately to his condition and experience.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Half-opening her lips to the frost’s morning sigh, how strangely the rose has smiled on a swift-fleeting day of September!
    How audacious it is to advance in stately manner before the blue-tit fluttering in the shrubs that have long lost their leaves, like a queen with the spring’s greeting on her lips;
    to bloom with steadfast hope that, parted from the cold flower-bed, she may be the last to cling, intoxicated, to a young hostess’s breast.
    Afanasi Fet (1820–1892)