Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.


Edward Gibbon

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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS
Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS
There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
RATISH EDWARDS
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
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In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost i...
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We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
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Family is the most important thing in the world.
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You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS
You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm an affectionate person.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
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I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
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Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON
Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON
Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT
Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V
I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON
It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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EDWARD SAID
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
EDWARD YOUNG
Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei...
EDWARD VARESE
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE
The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c...
EDWARD RUSCHA
I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac...
EDWARD FITZGERALD
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
EDWARD YOUNG
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER
True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER