Princess Beatrix Quotes in The Swan (1956)

Princess Beatrix: [about Albert] When he DOES decide to hold something, it would be the bass viol!

Princess Beatrix: Dear Aunt Symphorosa - always looking for wallflowers.

Princess Beatrix: But this is the 20th century!

Symphorosa: I don't like the 20th century.

Captain Wunderlich: What was she called?

Symphorosa: Oh, I can't remember.

Princess Beatrix: Yes you can dear, "Elaina the Iceburg."

Princess Beatrix: Oh my dear child, this is the one thing, the one opportunity that all your life I've been praying for - for you to become a queen.

Princess Beatrix: [very perturbed about Prince Albert spending much of the day observing mechanized milking machines in the estate's dairy barn] I should think that machine is quite worn out, say nothing of the cows.

Princess Beatrix: Must you still write with a feather? This is the 20th century.

Symphorosa: I don't like the 20th century.

Princess Beatrix: [to Dr. Nicholas Agi] You're here to give the boys an education, not to fill their heads with a lot of historical gossip.

Princess Beatrix: I noticed the roses are already beginning to bloom.

Head Gardener: They're just at their best, your highness.

Princess Beatrix: I don't want them at their best until the day after tomorrow. Hold them back.

Princess Beatrix: [a soccer ball bounces through a window onto the hallway floor] That tutor. He has no control over the boys whatsoever.

Symphorosa: Nor the ball either.

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Princess Beatrix: A queen can't afford to be shy. She can never be humiliated. She's above it and beyond it.

Princess Beatrix: My dear child, how do you suppose I came to marry your father? You can't think a man just gets an idea into his head and asks a woman to marry him? Of course not! All your father ever cared for was horses. He wouldn't even look at me. So I looked once or twice at the riding master. Your father proposed the very next afternoon - on horseback.