Elizabeth I Quotes - 9quotes.com

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The past cannot be cured.
Written by Elizabeth I
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Written by Elizabeth I
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Written by Elizabeth I
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Written by Elizabeth I
God forgive you, but I never can.
Written by Elizabeth I
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Written by Elizabeth I
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Elizabeth I
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
Written by Elizabeth I
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Written by Elizabeth I
I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
Written by Elizabeth I
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
Written by Elizabeth I
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Written by Elizabeth I
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Written by Elizabeth I
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Written by Elizabeth I
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Written by Elizabeth I
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
Written by Elizabeth I
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Written by Elizabeth I
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
Written by Elizabeth I
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Written by 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.
Written by Elizabeth I
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
Written by Elizabeth I
The end crowneth the work.
Written by Elizabeth I
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Written by Elizabeth I
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Written by Elizabeth I
The word must is not to be used to princes.
Written by Elizabeth I
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
Written by Elizabeth I

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