Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
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