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Elizabeth I
English
Royalty
About the author
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Time
#Possessions
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Want
#Love
#Woman
#Queen
#Husband
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,
English
Royalty
#God
#People
#Queen
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Grave
He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#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,
English
Royalty
#God
#Being
#Soldiers
God forgive you, but I never can.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#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,
English
Royalty
#Fear
#Destruction
#Nature
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Gold
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Past
#Fool
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
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,
English
Royalty
#Heart
#Woman
#England
#Body
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Strength
#Harm
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Faith
#Silence
#Secrets
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#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,
English
Royalty
#Will
#May
#England
#Queen
#Son
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Will
#Wind
#Sex
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,
English
Royalty
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Government
#Wit
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Friend
#Opinions
#Company
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#May
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#God
#World
#Religion
#Causes
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,
English
Royalty
#Nothing
#Country
The word must is not to be used to princes.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Word
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,
English
Royalty
#Nothing
#Ireland
The end crowneth the work.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Work
#End
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#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,
English
Royalty
#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,
English
Royalty
#Man
#Word
#Father
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Death
#War
#Enemies
#states
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Virtue
#Sex
If we still advise we shall never do.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#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,
English
Royalty
#Extreme
#Reputation
#Unworthy
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Queen
I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#People
#Nothing
#Children
#Parents
#Credit
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#God
#Thought
#Deception
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Nothing
#Conscience
The past cannot be cured.
Elizabeth I,
English
Royalty
#Past