Elizabeth I Quotes
"I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Love, Husband, Queen, Want, Woman)
"I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: God, People, Queen)
"I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Grave)
"He who placed me in this seat will keep me here."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Will)
"God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: God, Being, Soldiers)
"God forgive you, but I never can."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: God)
"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Nature, Fear, Destruction)
"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Gold)
"A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Fool, Past)
"Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst."
- Elizabeth I
"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Heart, Body, England, Woman)
"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Strength, Harm)
"Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Faith, Secrets, Silence)
"One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Man, Worth)
"Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Son, England, May, Queen, Will)
"Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Sex, Will, Wind)
"To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it."
- Elizabeth I
"Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Government, Wit)
"Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Friend, Company, Opinions)
"Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: May)
"There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: God, Religion, Causes, World)
"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Country, Nothing)
"The word must is not to be used to princes."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Word)
"The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower."
- Elizabeth I
"I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!"
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Ireland, Nothing)
"The end crowneth the work."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Work, End)
"I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Heart, Man, Woman)
"My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Death, England, Harm, Hate)
"Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Father, Man, Word)
"Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Death, War, Enemies, states)
"It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Sex, Virtue)
"If we still advise we shall never do."
- Elizabeth I
"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Heart)
"I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Extreme, Reputation, Unworthy)
"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Queen)
"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: People, Children, Credit, Nothing, Parents)
"I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: God, Thought, Deception)
"A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Conscience, Nothing)
"The past cannot be cured."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Past)