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
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a… — 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
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in… — 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
There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
“[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too… — 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
“(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:) "[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards… — 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
![“[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.” quote by Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/143/elizabeth-i-3475_ends_i-n-the-end-this-shall-be-for-me-suffici_2480162.jpg)
![“[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.” quote by Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/70f/elizabeth-i-3475_embarrassing_to-edward-de-vere-earl-of-oxford-on-his_732567.jpg)
![“[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in…” quote by Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9cd/elizabeth-i-3475_bachelorhood_f-rom-my-years-of-understanding-i-happil_1770596.jpg)
![“[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.” quote by Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d5/elizabeth-i-3475_lows_on-being-told-mary-queen-of-scots-was-ta_2785856.jpg)
![“(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:) "[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify your Serene Highness with the same kind of affection. And that indeed does not happen because we…” quote by Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/465/elizabeth-i-3475_bachelorhood_response-to-king-erik-xiv-of-sweden-s-pr_2943576.jpg)
