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“History was not made by those who did nothing.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 2: Lisbon
Tagged: History, Legacy, infamous
“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
“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
“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
“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
“People are so rarely what they seem.”
— Jacqueline Kennedy, The Crown, Season 2: Dear Mrs. Kennedy
Tagged: Rarely, What they seem, People
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I am Queen, but I am also a woman. And a wife.”
— Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, Season 1: Windsor
Tagged: Queen, Woman, Wife
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Where there is heroism there will always be hope.”
— Sir Winston Churchill, The Crown, Season 1: Act of God
Tagged: Heroism, Hope, Optimistic
“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
“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
“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
“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
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