Margrethe II of Denmark: Quotes about people

“That cold January day - and so many people… I'd never imagined it would happen nowadays.”

Margrethe II of Denmark

Television documentary 'Queen Margrethe of Denmark', BBC & Jørgen Bonfils, 08:50, 28 April 1974.
Becoming Queen

People , Imagination

“One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.”

Margrethe II of Denmark

Unsourced

People , Hope

“We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.”

Margrethe II of Denmark

From 'Om man så må sige – 350 Dronning Margrethe-citater', quoted in English here http://trondni.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/new-books-wit-and-wisdom-of-margrethe-ii.html.
Society

People , Thinking

“God's help, the love of the people, the strength of Denmark.”

Margrethe II of Denmark

Margrethe II's royal motto, chosen upon her accession to the throne.
Queenship

Love , God , People , Help

“When people say that I may not speak, they forget that I may well think. I may think what I want, like everyone else. I shall just refrain from saying everything I think. That might be something many people should do once in a while.”

Margrethe II of Denmark

From 'Om man så må sige – 350 Dronning Margrethe-citater', quoted in English here http://trondni.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/new-books-wit-and-wisdom-of-margrethe-ii.html.
Personal

People , Thinking , Forgetting

“I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.”

Margrethe II of Denmark

Television documentary 'Queen Margrethe of Denmark', BBC & Jørgen Bonfils, 08:45, 28 April 1974.
Becoming Queen

People , Family , Support

“I think that people imagine protocol and etiquette as some kind of great dragon that hovers behind the pageantries of the palace to pounce on you and eat you up if you aren't behaving as you should. But in fact etiquette is saying how to do when you meet people, saying good night to your parents before going to bed, opening a door to a woman, getting up if an older person wants to sit down on the bus and it's all full, that is etiquette, or protocol, if you wish. At the everyday level, all the time, all of us. It's a way of knowing what you've got to do so that you have your mind free to do other things and think of other things.”

Margrethe II of Denmark

Television documentary 'Queen Margrethe of Denmark', BBC & Jørgen Bonfils, 31:30, 28 April 1974.
Protocol

People , Way , Imagination , Thinking

“We can be very relaxed in our relationship with the Danish people…I feel extraordinarily privileged.”

Margrethe II of Denmark

BBC, 'Denmark's Queen Margrethe Marks Forty Years', http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16537659 (13 January 2012).
Personal

People , Feeling

“There is nothing so clever as people you agree with.”

Margrethe II of Denmark

Quoted by Helle Thorning-Schmidt on the occasion of Margrethe II's Ruby Jubilee. Speech http://kongehuset.dk/Menu/nyheder/statsministerens-tale-ved-gallataflet (15 January 2012)
Misc.

People