Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania Quotes

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Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania
I have always had the joy of life, uncrushably, a sort of inner sunshine that cannot be put out.

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania
What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania
We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing... so we are never out of breath.

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania
I am said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. About that, of course, I cannot judge because I cannot know. But about the other queens, I know. I am the most beautiful queen in Europe.

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania
If you ever think I am over-exuberant, too unconventional, too outspoken, remember that life has not blunted me nor made me blasé or indifferent, that all things are still a joy and of interest to me because of that secret source of enchantment that flows within me - the joy of life!

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania
I have met [a proselytizer from a religious group]. I did not like him. He seemed to me to be a snob. He spoke of God as if He were the oldest title in the Almanach de Gotha. And all that business about telling one's sins in public — He wanted me … me … to get up before my children and confess everything I had ever done! It is spiritual nudism! Ça se ne fait pas.

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania
To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both.

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania