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Elizabeth I Quotes

Type:
Royalty Quotes
Category:
English Royalty Quotes
Date of Birth:
September 7, 1533
Date of Death:
March 24, 1603
Nationality:
English
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Elizabeth I

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 		 A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Elizabeth I

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Elizabeth I

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Elizabeth I

All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth I

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Elizabeth I

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Elizabeth I

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Elizabeth I

God forgive you, but I never can.
Elizabeth I

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

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
Elizabeth I

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Elizabeth I

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

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
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

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
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

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
Elizabeth I

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
Elizabeth I

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Elizabeth I

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Elizabeth I

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Elizabeth I

If we still advise we shall never do.
Elizabeth I

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Elizabeth I

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Elizabeth I

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

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

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
Elizabeth I

The end crowneth the work.
Elizabeth I

The past cannot be cured.
Elizabeth I

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
Elizabeth I

The word must is not to be used to princes.
Elizabeth I

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

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
Elizabeth I

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
Elizabeth I

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

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
Elizabeth I

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

To be a king and wear a crown is more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasure to them that bear it.
Elizabeth I

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Elizabeth I

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Elizabeth I

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
Elizabeth I


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