#elizabeth

This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey! ↗

— Redd Foxx

#coming #elizabeth #hear #honey #i

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth. ↗

— Macy Gray

#i #like #queen

I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose. ↗

— Barry Williams

#am #bewitched #big #elizabeth #fan

Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#electric #elizabeth #i #keen #neither

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#actually #been #coach #elizabethan #imagine

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#dominated #elizabeth #elizabeth i #eras #four

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#elizabeth #grab #into #little #trap

I knew you were behind the tapestry,” he said. “I also knew the railing was about to give way. I was waiting for you, waiting for your fall.” Waiting all my life for you, he added silently, waiting all my life for you to fall in love with me. ↗

— Elizabeth Elliott

#elizabeth-elliott #the-dark-knight #life

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#achievements #career #clichés #double-standards #feminism

Tilting her face back, he looked into her eyes. They were unfocused, unable to settle on his face. And the same terrifying feeling stole over him once again. An acute fear—a final, painful realization—that her world was one of utter blackness. At last he realized the magnitude of her blindness. He couldn’t imagine never seeing her again. It was like a death, the inevitable conclusion when someone was gone. Why it should hit him now, after all these years, he could not fathom, but it was there, and finally he understood her private hell. He’d told her he would die without sight. Selfish, arrogant bastard, concerned with his own needs, his own perversions to watch himself pleasure her, to study her as she accepted him, to watch their bodies joined. How carelessly he had said that, not thinking of Elizabeth and what she would die for. What she wanted in this life. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#elizabeth #iain #temptation-and-twilight #death