Queen Quotes
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...because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.
Colin Thompson
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The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
Howard Staunton
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I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life.
Nicholas Sparks
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
Victor Hugo
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To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.
Lewis Carroll
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I feel sorry for Sparta when you’re queen. What are you going to do? Tell your husband and the rest of the court that they can wrap your beauty around them to keep warm and well all winter?
Esther M. Friesner
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Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
Freddie Mercury
Queen
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Thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute.
William Shakespeare
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Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.
Johnny Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.
Linda Ronstadt
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People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen. And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems.
Alexander Rybak
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She's my mother and the Queen.
Princess Anne
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If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.
Andy Eddy
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Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.
Blaise Pascal
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Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
This supermarket life is getting long
What is the heart life of a colour TV
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen.
Roger Waters
Pink Floyd
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AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.
Rico Love
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The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.
Howard Staunton
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May, queen of blossoms,
And fulfilling flowers,
With what pretty music
Shall we charm the hours?
Wilt thou have pipe and reed,
Blown in the open mead?
Or to the lute give heed
In the green bowers.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
[Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]
Blaise Pascal
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How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!
George Croly
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Then Beverley Brook stepped onto the footplate and pointed a shotgun straight at the Queen’s head – I recognised the Purdey from my trunk. It was nice to see it getting an airing.
Beverley herself was wearing an oversized leather jerkin and jeans. Her dreads had been tied into a plait down her back and a pair of antique leather and brass goggles were pushed up onto her brow.
‘Put your hands on your head,’ she said, ‘and step away from the boyfriend.’
The Queen hissed and gripped the rope harder.
Ben Aaronovitch