“That's mine!”
Said to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, when she realised he had taken her glass of wine just as she prepared to propose a toast during a lunch to celebrate her 100th birthday.
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Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
Arrow Books/Random House
2006
490
978-0-09-947662-7
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Queen consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth … 1900–2002Related quotes

“For what is yours is mine, and mine is yours.”
Quod tuum’st, meum’st; omne meum est autem tuum.
Trinummus, Act II, sc. 2, line 47.
Trinummus (The Three Coins)

“Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine! Mine!”
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“Nothing I counted mine, out of my life,
is mine to take…”
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987)
Context: No use to fall down on my knees
and beg for mercy's sake.
Nothing I counted mine, out of my life,
is mine to take...