Elizabeth I
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.Collection: Faith
God forgive you, but I never can.Collection: Forgiveness
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Thankful
The past cannot be cured.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Death
All my possessions for a moment of time.Collection: Time
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.Collection: Nature
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.Collection: Strength
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.Collection: Love
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.Collection: Alone
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.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
The word must is not to be used to princes.
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.
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
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.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
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.
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.
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 stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
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.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
If we still advise we shall never do.
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
The end crowneth the work.
He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.Collection: Grief
Men fight wars. Women win them.Collection: War
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.Collection: Husband
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.Collection: Bored
Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.Collection: Loyalty
I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heartCollection: Heart
I observe and remain silent.Collection: Silent
Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.Collection: Tree
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worstCollection: Worst
Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.Collection: Adversity