The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. — 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
