Talk:Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

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 * "Whatever would American tourists think?"
 * Admonishing a group of London teenagers she saw throwing stones at a car.


 * "Is it just me or are pensioners getting younger these days?"
 * To a group of pensioners. (At age 90)


 * "Is that wise, darling? Remember you have to reign all afternoon."
 * To the Queen, who was contemplating having a second glass of wine at lunch.


 * "Quite, quite good. Very, very, very, very, very good, indeed!"
 * About something, maybe a movie or a glass of beer. I forget.


 * "I hadn't realised I enjoyed that reputation. But as I do, perhaps you could make it a large one."
 * To her host who blurted out "I hear you like gin" during an engagement at which she was supposed to be offered a cup of tea.


 * "The chopper has changed my life as conclusively as it did Anne Boleyn's."
 * ''To a pilot after having decided that helicopters were a useful convenience.


 * "Oh, I understand that perfectly. That's how we feel in Scotland too, but the English won't allow it."
 * On a 1947 tour of South Africa, in reply to an Afrikaner who said "I don't think much of royalty. I think South Africa ought to be a republic."


 * Canadian veteran: Are you Scotch or English? Elizabeth: I'm Canadian!


 * "I wouldn't if I were you, Noel; they count them before they put them out."
 * To Noel Coward, when he showed interest in the guardsmen at a gala function.


 * "When one of you young queens has finished, can you bring this old queen a drink?"
 * To her largely homosexual personal staff


 * "Not very romantic."
 * About her honeymoon, spent at Glamis Castle suffering from whooping cough.


 * "Who are you supposed to be, dear? Are you Daddy or the Mad Hatter?"
 * To her daughter, Princess Margaret Rose. The reply was "No, I'm Johnnie Walker."


 * "I'll polish it off myself."
 * ''On the fate of a gift of a nebuchadnezzar of champagne (20 bottles worth) even if her family didn't come for the holidays.


 * "The princesses could not possibly leave without me; I wouldn't leave the King, and the King will never leave under any circumstances."
 * After being asked to go to Canada for her safety during the Blitz


 * "I am almost glad we have been bombed. Now I feel I can look the East End in the face."
 * After Buckingham Palace was bombed. The East End of London had been badly damaged by bombing.


 * "The only other man who has ever done that to me was my husband."
 * ''After U.S. President Jimmy Carter greeted her with a kiss on the lips.

Quotes about Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (unsourced)

 * If [Winston] Churchill is the man in Europe I must fear most, then surely she is the woman I have most to fear of in Europe.
 * Adolf Hitler (attributed)


 * [She should be] Hung, drawn and...quartered...hung in diamonds, drawn in a coach, and...quartered in the best house in the land.
 * A British serviceman, in her autograph book, for her service caring for wounded soldiers