Government Quotes by Elizabeth I

Affection! Affection is false.

— Elizabeth I

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

It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

— Elizabeth I

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

— Elizabeth I

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

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

— Elizabeth I

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

I would not open windows into men's souls.

— Elizabeth I

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

— Elizabeth I

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

— Elizabeth I

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

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

— Elizabeth I