Princess Elizabeth's Spy Quotes

“Jolly good!" ... King [George VI] exclaimed [after Queen Elizabeth fired the gun at Hitler's photograph]. "You got him right in the n-n-n-naughty bits."... "Good," she said. "That's where I was aiming.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy

“His one indulgence was attending the occasional Chelsea Blues game”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy

“You have a fifty-fifty chance, Hope. Probability equals the number of desirable outcomes divided by the number of possible outcomes. A coin flip. And that’s only theoretical—a big wave might take you out first—better make that one of the possible outcomes. Probability of survival dips even lower, then.…”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy

“I’m through allowing myself to be confined to so-called ‘women’s work.’ I’m also through with patronizing men giving me half-truths and withholding information. That will end here and now.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy

“Christopher Boothby had”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy

“Why her husband couldn’t have simply stayed on the throne when he’d married her, she would never understand—or forgive.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy

“bejeweled flamingo brooch, and dark glasses. She sipped a Campari and soda, the ice cubes clinking against one another in her tall glass.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy

“miss maths—two plus two always equals four.” Maggie thought for a moment. “Although, as Kurt Gödel theorized, there’s a vast difference between the truth and the part of the truth that can be proved.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy

“configured in an almost infinite number of ways. The odds against anyone breaking Enigma were a staggering 150 million million million to one.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy

“Like the CIA and the FBI, MI-6 dealt with foreign threats and MI-5 with domestic.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy

“I want to die at age a hundred and one, in my own bed, surrounded by grown children and fat grandbabies.…”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy

“Non illegitimi carborundum”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy