Queen's Counsel Quotes

#1. Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

Cherie Blair

#2. After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.

Alain De Botton

#4. And I had no one to talk to about it because I was a fucking hermit!

L. H. Cosway

#5. In theory, practice should work like theory. In practice, it doesn't.

Yogi Berra

#6. To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

Queen Elizabeth II

#7. I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

John Dingell

#8. The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.

Sara Teasdale