They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety… — 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
