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
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
[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
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
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 want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman. — 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
[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
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
[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
“(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
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