Generous Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Queen Elizabeth, she's the ultimate hypocrite!

— Chris Jericho

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

— Kirsty Gallacher

“As it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured in her answer to put an end to every entreaty and expectation of…

— Jane Austen

“Despite the absence of Queen Elizabeth II’s name in annual Forbes Rich Lists, everyone in the room was aware the Queen was one of…

— James Morcan

“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.

— Emilia Clarke

“Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.”

— Jane Austen

Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly…

— Cokie Roberts

…dearest, loveliest Elizabeth [...] By you, I was properly humbled.

— Jane Austen

“Apparently, the princes had found the only four women in the universes who didn’t dream of being royal, rich and adored by their husbands.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original.…

— Iris Apfel

“She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett