We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

I should like to be a horse.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.