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Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (Nobleman)

"We'd have to go self-service."
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon self
After aminister advised her not to employ homosexuals Summerskill, Ben (10 November 2002). . The Observer.
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon sex
Whilst playing cards,
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon play
Elizabeth: How are you getting on? You don't look very happy. Lord Salisbury: Oh, Ma'am, I've been left with a horrible queen. Elizabeth: I don't think that's a very good of way of putting it, do you? Quoted byin: The Queen Mother Remembered (BBC Books, 2002)
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon good
"Was this yours? Oh, could you take it?"
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon you
On returning a toilet roll to a demonstrator who had thrown it at her. Quoted byin: The Queen Mother Remembered (BBC Books, 2002)
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon demons
"But I love communists!"
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon love
On being warned that a functionary to whom she was about to be introduced was a communist. Quoted by the Duchess of Grafton in: The Queen Mother Remembered (BBC Books, 2002)
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon war
"Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus."
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon life
Quoted by Michael Parker in: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography (Shawcross, 2009)
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon quote
"Dear Edwina, she always liked to make a splash." On hearing that Edwina Mountbatten had been buried at sea
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon sea
Quoted by The Straits Times (Singapore) on 7 August 2000
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon time
"I wouldn't if I were you, No
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon you
Quoted by Thomas Blaikie in: You look awfully like the Queen: Wit and Wisdom from the House of Windsor (HarperCollins, London, 2002, isbn=0-00-714874-7)
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon wisdom
"I'll polish it off myself." On the fate of a gift of a nebuchadnezzar of champagne (20 bottles' worth) even if her family didn't come for the holidays.
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon family
Quoted by Graham Taylor in: Elizabeth: The Woman and the Queen, (Telegraph Books, 2002)
— Elizabeth Bowes Lyon man

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