Words matter. These are the best Elizabeth I Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
All my possessions for a moment of time.
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
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.
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.
The word must is not to be used to princes.
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.
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
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.
If we still advise we shall never do.
The past cannot be cured.
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.
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
