Elizabeth II Quotes

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Alas! how easily things go wrong!

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.

Misfortunes never come singly.

A guilty party is being sought. Such action is a favorite means of consolation in the face of calamity.

What is the distinction between "misfortune" and "calamity"? If Mr. Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune; but if someone pulled him out, it would be a calamity.

I tell you naught for your comfort Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

It [a comet] appears, only then in the heavens when the latter punish the earth, and through it [the comet] not only predict but bring to pass all sorts of calamity....And, to that end, its tail serves for a rod, its hair for weapons and arrows, its light for a threat, and its heat for a sign of anger and vengeance … Comets can indirectly, in view of their material, betoken wars, tumults, and the death of princes.

My friends have named me the person they least want to do extreme adventures with, because I always seem to be very close to being part of a disaster. If a cat has nine lives, I think I've used a few.

When you're losing, crap happens.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

Over the years, I've had torrid luck with things going wrong.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

And woe succeeds woe.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.