“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!”
Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood
Source: The Year of the Flood
“Nothing I counted mine, out of my life,
is mine to take…”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
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...