Elizabeth I of England Quotes

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
  
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
  
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
  
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
  
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
  
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 the

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

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

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

God forgive you, but I never can.
  
The past cannot be cured.
  
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.
  
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
  
The end crowneth the work.
  
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

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

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
  
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.
  
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

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

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