Queen Marie Of Romania Quotes

Queen Marie of Romania, who once wrote: 'We are hardly ever arbiters of our own Fate: We must move, do, live, according to our several duties and our own desires and wishes have to be fitted in with what we can do more often than what we desire to do'.

Dar de asemenea la acea ora de indoiala am jurat in adancul sufletului meu ca voi lupta, aducandu-mi partea mea (poate partea leului) cu toata rabdarea posibila, ignorand toate dezamagirile si descurajarile, chiar daca eram sortita sa fiu invinsa in final.

Etiquette is for those with no breeding; fashion for those with no taste.

And when the darkest hour came, when all Hope seemed gone, when the hearts of many failed, when the flame was no longer visible but the right of faith, still i felt a superhuman force strengthen me as my love and my confindence could have accomplished the miracles în wich no one any longer believed.

There are great dreamers and there are great workers in the world! When a dreamer is also a worker, he is working for today and for tomorrow as well. For he is building for those who come after us.

If there remains the smallest, most meagre fighting chance, I shall still fight, --- a losing battle no doubt, but I would consider myself unworthy of my own ideas, were I to give in before I completely convinced that all is lost.