Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave.

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Since I have landed in Quebec, I think we can say that I am Canadian.

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Never trust them, never trust them. They can't be trusted.

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

We'd have to go self-service.

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

We loved him.

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Was this yours? Oh, could you take it?

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

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

That's mine!

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Dear Edwina, she always liked to make a splash.

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

I wouldn't if I were you, Noël; they count them before they put them out.

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

I'll polish it off myself.

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon