Quotes by Elizabeth I
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
The past cannot be cured.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
If we still advise we shall never do.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
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.
The end crowneth the work.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
All my possessions for a moment of time.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
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.
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