It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhapsmight havetakenoccasionto repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.221,13 Nov.

   The rose is red, the leaves are green, God save Elizabeth, our noble queen.

-Anonymous
 Lines written by a Westminster schoolboy in the margin of his copy of Julius Caesar. Quoted in P  W Hasler (ed)  The House of Commons,1558^1603 (vol.1), p.474.

Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amount of effort.

-Schumpeter,Joseph Alois
  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, p.67.