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Peter Morgan Quotes

Total quotes: 40
“I learned very early on that it’s wise not to take things for granted.”
— Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, The Crown, Season 2: A Company of Men
Tagged: early, wise, take things for granted, Learning
“I am aware that I am surrounded by people who feel that they could do the job better, strong people with powerful characters, but for better or worse, the crown has landed on my head.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 1: Pride & Joy
Tagged: aware, Job, better, Strong, Powerful, characters, Worse, Crown
“He hasn’t found happiness. He’s found marriage, the very opposite of happiness.”
— Antony Armstrong-Jones, The Crown, Season 2: Matrimonium
Tagged: Happiness, Marriage, Opposite
“In any marriage it’s important to find things that really bind you together, as a couple.”
— Antony Armstrong-Jones, The Crown, Season 2: Mystery Man
Tagged: Marriage, Together, couple, bind you
“Monarchy is God’s sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth. To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards, an example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives. Monarchy is a calling from God.”
— Queen Mary, The Crown, Season 1: Act of God
Tagged: God, Grace, dignify, Earth, Ideal, Nobility, Duty, Monarchy
“To do nothing is the hardest job of all. And it will take every ounce of energy that you have. To be impartial is not natural, not human.”
— Queen Mary, The Crown, Season 1: Act of God
Tagged: hardest, Job, Energy, impartial, Natural, Not Human, Nothing
“Some things can only be perceived one way because they only have one meaning.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 2: Mystery Man
Tagged: one meaning, percieved, one way
“It is not my job to govern. But it is my job to ensure proper governance.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 1: Scientia Potentia Est
Tagged: rule, govern, proper, ensure, governance
“It is better to be patient and get what you desire in the right time, than have high office thrust upon you when you are not ready.”
— King George VI, The Crown, Season 1: Hyde Park Corner
Tagged: Patient, Desire, Office, Ready
“People have to be angry at someone. But as leader, one cannot simply react to everything.”
— Sir Winston Churchill, The Crown, Season 1: Act of God
Tagged: angry, leader, React, react to everything
“A sick king is no good to anyone. There must be no weakness. No vulnerability.”
— King George VI, The Crown, Season 1: Wolferton Splash
Tagged: Sick, king, no good, Weakness, vulnerability
“In the first flush of a romantic love, we’re all blind. We see only what we want to see.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 2: Matrimonium
Tagged: Blind, flush, Romantic Love, see only what you want to see
“I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the country. But I'm in the top one.”
— Brian Clough, The Damned United
Tagged: soccer movies, Narcisissm
“Who we are is not what we wear or what glitters. It’s the spirit that defines us.”
— Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, The Crown, Season 2: Paterfamilias
Tagged: wear, glitters, Spirit, Define
“Many have questioned my relevance, whether I still have something to offer. In public life, the answer is, I have. Which is to leave in place a Sovereign prepared for office. Equipped, armed for her duty.”
— Sir Winston Churchill, The Crown, Season 1: Windsor
Tagged: questioned, Relevance, offer, public, Life, armed
“With this family, when you’re in, you’re never quite sure that you’re in. But when you’re out, there’s no doubt at all. You’re out.”
— Duke of Windsor, The Crown, Season 1: Windsor
Tagged: Family, out, in, Doubt
“What kind of marriage is this? What kind of family? You’ve taken my career from me, you’ve taken my home. You’ve taken my name. I thought we were in this together.”
— Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, The Crown, Season 1: Windsor
Tagged: Marriage, Family, Career, Home, name, Together
“That’s the thing about unhappiness. All it takes is for something worse to come along and you realize it was actually happiness after all.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 2: Dear Mrs. Kennedy
Tagged: Unhappiness, Worse, come along, Happiness
“Why does everybody think, just because we’re royal, we like fine dining? Don’t they realize we’re savages? Good for nothing but school dinners and nursery food.”
— Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, The Crown, Season 1: Hyde Park Corner
Tagged: Royal, fine dining, savages, Good for Nothing, school dinners, nursery food
“It’s really one of the great paradoxes of being in a position where I have to talk to a great many people, but deep down, I’m happiest with animals.”
— Jacqueline Kennedy, The Crown, Season 2: Dear Mrs. Kennedy
Tagged: Paradoxes, Position, talking, Animals, humans, Happiest
“You understand, the titles, the dukedom. They’re not the job. She is the job. She is the essence of your duty. Loving her. Protecting her. Of course, you’ll miss your career. But doing this for her, doing this for me, there may be no greater act of patriotism. Or love.”
— King George VI, The Crown, Season 1: Wolferton Splash
Tagged: Understand, Titles, dukedom, Job, Protection, Career, Love, Patriotism
“To do nothing is often the best course of action.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 2: Lisbon
Tagged: Nothing, Doing Nothing, best, course of action
“Keep one eye on the future. The distant future.”
— King George VI, The Crown, Season 1: Wolferton Splash
Tagged: eye on the future, distant, heads up, Future, Advice
“We are half-people. Ripped from the pages of some bizarre mythology, the two sides within us, human and crown engaged in a fearful civil war, which never ends. And which blights our every human transaction as brother, husband, sister, wife, mother.”
— Duke of Windsor, The Crown, Season 1: Gloriana
Tagged: People, Mythology, human, Crown, Civil War, Brother, husband, Wife, sister, mother
“People are so rarely what they seem.”
— Jacqueline Kennedy, The Crown, Season 2: Dear Mrs. Kennedy
Tagged: Rarely, What they seem, People
“History was not made by those who did nothing.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 2: Lisbon
Tagged: History, Legacy, infamous
“Where there is heroism there will always be hope.”
— Sir Winston Churchill, The Crown, Season 1: Act of God
Tagged: Heroism, Hope, Optimistic
“Too much knowledge can be a dangerous thing.”
— Sir Winston Churchill, The Crown, Season 1: Scientia Potentia Est
Tagged: Knowledge, dangerous, Advice
“Too much character, an excess of character.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 1: Pride & Joy
Tagged: character, excess, Too Much
“One always has to accept one’s own part, I believe, in any mess.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 2: Lisbon
Tagged: Accept, your part, Mess, Believe
“David Frost: Are you really saying the president can do something illegal?



Richard Nixon: I'm saying that when the President does it, it's *not* illegal!



David Frost: ...I'm sorry?”
— David Frost, Frost/Nixon
Tagged: Corrupt Politics, Corruption, Nixon
“No man should be punished for love.”
— Sir Winston Churchill, The Crown, Season 1: Windsor
Tagged: Man, punished, Love
“There’s no such thing as a blameless party in a divorce.”
— Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, The Crown, Season 1: Gelignite
Tagged: Blameless, Divorce, end of relationship, Messy
“Who wants transparency when you can have magic? Who wants prose when you can have poetry? Pull away the veil and what are you left with? An ordinary young woman of modest ability and little imagination. But wrap her up like this, anoint her with oil, and hey, presto, what do you have? A goddess.”
— Duke of Windsor, The Crown, Season 1: Smoke and Mirrors
Tagged: Transparency, Magic, Prose, Poetry, Questions, Goddess
“While you mourn your father, you must also mourn someone else. Elizabeth Mountbatten. For she has now been replaced by another person, Elizabeth Regina. The two Elizabeths will frequently be in conflict with one another. The fact is, the Crown must win. Must always win.”
— Queen Mary, The Crown, Season 1: Hyde Park Corner
Tagged: Mourn, Death, Replaced, Person, Win, Crown
“We’re all dying. That’s what defines the condition of living.”
— Sir Winston Churchill, The Crown, Season 1: Wolferton Splash
Tagged: Dying, defines, condition, Living, Life
“There comes a time where one must draw a line in the sand.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 1: Act of God
Tagged: Time, draw a line in the sand, Limits
“I am Queen, but I am also a woman. And a wife.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 1: Windsor
Tagged: Queen, Woman, Wife
“A shy person will seek out someone strong to protect them. And a strong character’s often one who enjoys public life. Who thrives on it. And then, before you know it, the very person you’ve turned to in order to protect you is the very reason you are exposed.”
— Jacqueline Kennedy, The Crown, Season 2: Dear Mrs. Kennedy
Tagged: Shy, Strong, Public Life, thrives, Exposed, Reason
“There is no such thing as a bad compliment.”
— Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, The Crown, Season 2: Matrimonium
Tagged: Bad, Compliment, no such thing
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