Princess Margaret Quotes

If you’re not first in line, if you’re an individual character with individual needs, and God forbid an irregular temperament… If you don’t fit the perfect mold of silent, dutiful supplication, then you’ll be spat out, or you’ll be hidden away, or, worse, declared dead!

How many times can this family make the same mistake? Forbidding marriages that should be allowed. Forcing others that shouldn’t. Paying the consequences each time

Happiness is a fickle creature. A constant companion to some, hides herself completely from others.

Self-pity won’t get you very far. You’ve just got to get on with it.

It’s so nice when a man is unaware of his best features.

Begging for anything is desperate. Begging for pardon is common.

Tony and I will never let go of one another. And it’s not just because divorce is incompatible with my faith, but because this is just how we like it. War is our love. A brutal fight to the death is our mating dance, and I speak for both of us when I say we wouldn’t want it any other way. Contentment is dull, and Tony and I are anything but dull.

That’s the thing about the monarchy. We paper over the cracks. And if what we do is loud and grand and confident enough, no one will notice that all around us it’s fallen apart. That’s the point of us.[to Elizabeth]

People do the strangest things when they’re unhappy.

There are some things one cannot express in words, and dance is a language of its own.

Out of the acorn of a simple kindness, an oak tree of happiness will grow.

One learns, when one has the benefit of experience, that sometimes time off is the most sensible course of action.