There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Have a care over my people. You have my people--do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I… — 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
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
