Edward VII Quotes

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

I have horses.

So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

I used to have a pony but I outgrew it and I do dream that one day I will live in the country and have lots of horses and be like a proper English lady who goes hunting and everything.

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.

I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

She certainly is a great queen, and were she only a Catholic she would be our dearly beloved. Just look how well she governs; she is only a woman, only mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all.

The monarchy is a labor-intensive industry.

I love producing horses, and we have some great young horses at home. We'll look forward and train those and start again.

My mother was actually a breeder, believe it or not, and she used to name horses after some of my songs.

Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. …. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.

It makes me feel like I can look the East End in the face.

The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.

A Scottish Presbytery … agreeth as well with a monarch as God and the Devil … I give not a turd for your preaching.

The King, long in the habit of drowning his cares in wine, plunges deeper and deeper; the Queen cries out but, but sins on.

The present King and Queen are popular, very, and increasingly so, but they have no message for the Labour Party who believe them, and rightly I fear, to be but the puppets of a Palace clique…. Still, it is the aristocracy which still rules England although nobody seems to believe it.

The Queen Mum officiated. It is remarkable that a lady of 76 or 77 can stand in the same spot for an hour and three quarters and, apparently without being prompted and without a crib, remember a little something significant to say to over a hundred people in the right order.