--- title: "11 Queens Quotes By Elizabeth I" description: "11 Queens quotes by Elizabeth I. Plus more from Elizabeth I and more Queens sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/elizabeth-i-3475_beggar_if-i-follow-the-inclination-of-my-nature_1260190.jpg" --- > [If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/if-i-follow-the-inclination-of-my-nature-it-is-this-beggar-woman-and/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/elizabeth-i-3475_beggar_if-i-follow-the-inclination-of-my-nature_1260190.jpg) > [ \[I\]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-n-the-end-this-shall-be-for-me-sufficient-that-a-marble-stone-shall/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/143/elizabeth-i-3475_ends_i-n-the-end-this-shall-be-for-me-suffici_2480162.jpg) > [ \[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:\] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/on-being-told-mary-queen-of-scots-was-taller-than-she-then-she-is-too/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/elizabeth-i-3475_lows_on-being-told-mary-queen-of-scots-was-ta_2785856.jpg) > [I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-do-not-want-a-husband-who-honors-me-as-a-queen-if-he-does-not-love/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/elizabeth-i-3475_doe_i-do-not-want-a-husband-who-honors-me-as_1547388.jpg) > [\[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/to-edward-de-vere-earl-of-oxford-on-his-return-from-self-imposed/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70f/elizabeth-i-3475_embarrassing_to-edward-de-vere-earl-of-oxford-on-his_732567.jpg) > [I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-will-be-as-good-unto-ye-as-ever-a-queen-was-unto-her-people-no-will/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/elizabeth-i-3475_blood_i-will-be-as-good-unto-ye-as-ever-a-quee_2677069.jpg) > [I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-do-not-so-much-rejoice-that-god-hath-made-me-to-be-a-queen-as-to-be/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/464/elizabeth-i-3475_causes_i-do-not-so-much-rejoice-that-god-hath-m_7244.jpg) > [There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/there-will-never-queen-sit-in-my-seat-with-more-zeal-to-my-country/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaa/elizabeth-i-3475_care_there-will-never-queen-sit-in-my-seat-wi_822712.jpg) > [As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/as-for-my-own-part-i-care-not-for-death-for-all-men-are-mortal-and/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d3/elizabeth-i-3475_able_as-for-my-own-part-i-care-not-for-death_612481.jpg) > [ “\[F\]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live \[i.e., unmarried\], which I… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/f-rom-my-years-of-understanding-i-happily-chose-this-kind-of-life-in/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cd/elizabeth-i-3475_bachelorhood_f-rom-my-years-of-understanding-i-happil_1770596.jpg) > [ “(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:) "\[W\]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/response-to-king-erik-xiv-of-sweden-s-proposal-of-marriage-w-hile-we/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/465/elizabeth-i-3475_bachelorhood_response-to-king-erik-xiv-of-sweden-s-pr_2943576.jpg) ## Other authors on Queens ## More by Elizabeth I > [Affection! Affection is false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/affection-affection-is-false/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-do-not-so-much-rejoice-that-god-hath-made-me-to-be-a-queen-as-to-be/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/it-is-monstrous-that-the-feet-should-direct-the-head/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-cannot-find-it-in-me-to-fear-a-man-who-took-ten-years-a-learning-of/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-grieve-and-dare-not-show-my-discontent-i-love-and-yet-am-forced-to/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-have-no-desire-to-make-windows-into-men-s-souls/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/let-tyrants-fear-i-have-always-so-behaved-myself-that-under-god-i/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [I would not open windows into men's souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-would-not-open-windows-into-men-s-souls/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/the-name-of-a-successor-is-like-the-tolling-of-my-own-death-bell/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/had-i-been-crested-not-cloven-my-lords-you-had-not-treated-me-thus/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-pluck-up-the-good-lissome-herbs-of-sentences-by-pruning-eat-them-by/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/eyes-of-youth-have-sharp-sight-but-commonly-not-so-deep-as-those-of/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-do-not-so-much-rejoice-that-god-hath-made-me-to-be-a-queen-as-to-be-2/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/it-has-been-always-held-for-a-special-principle-in-friendship-that/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) > [There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/there-is-a-close-tie-of-affection-between-sovereigns-and-their/) [Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-i/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": 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No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elizabeth I" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-will-be-as-good-unto-ye-as-ever-a-queen-was-unto-her-people-no-will/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/elizabeth-i-3475_blood_i-will-be-as-good-unto-ye-as-ever-a-quee_2677069.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/elizabeth-i-3475_blood_i-will-be-as-good-unto-ye-as-ever-a-quee_2677069.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/elizabeth-i-3475_blood_i-will-be-as-good-unto-ye-as-ever-a-quee_2677069.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. 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Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elizabeth I" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/i-do-not-so-much-rejoice-that-god-hath-made-me-to-be-a-queen-as-to-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/464/elizabeth-i-3475_causes_i-do-not-so-much-rejoice-that-god-hath-m_7244.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/464/elizabeth-i-3475_causes_i-do-not-so-much-rejoice-that-god-hath-m_7244.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/464/elizabeth-i-3475_causes_i-do-not-so-much-rejoice-that-god-hath-m_7244.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people…” — Elizabeth I", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elizabeth I" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/there-will-never-queen-sit-in-my-seat-with-more-zeal-to-my-country/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaa/elizabeth-i-3475_care_there-will-never-queen-sit-in-my-seat-wi_822712.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaa/elizabeth-i-3475_care_there-will-never-queen-sit-in-my-seat-wi_822712.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaa/elizabeth-i-3475_care_there-will-never-queen-sit-in-my-seat-wi_822712.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner…” — Elizabeth I", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. 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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 marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. 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I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e…” — Elizabeth I", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“(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 doubt in any way of your love and honour, but, as often we have testified both in words and writing, that we have never yet conceived a feeling of that kind of affection towards anyone. We therefore beg your Serene Highness again and again that you be pleased to set a limit to your love, that it advance not beyond the laws of friendship for the present nor disregard them in the future. ... We certainly think that if God ever direct our hearts to consideration of marriage we shall never accept or choose any absent husband how powerful and wealthy a Prince soever. But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing. I have always given both to your brother ... and also to your ambassador likewise the same answer with scarcely any variation of the words, that we do not conceive in our heart to take a husband but highly commend this single life, and hope that your Serene Highness will no longer spend time in waiting for us.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elizabeth I" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-i/response-to-king-erik-xiv-of-sweden-s-proposal-of-marriage-w-hile-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/465/elizabeth-i-3475_bachelorhood_response-to-king-erik-xiv-of-sweden-s-pr_2943576.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/465/elizabeth-i-3475_bachelorhood_response-to-king-erik-xiv-of-sweden-s-pr_2943576.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/465/elizabeth-i-3475_bachelorhood_response-to-king-erik-xiv-of-sweden-s-pr_2943576.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:) \"[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of…” — Elizabeth I", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/queens/elizabeth-i/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/queens/elizabeth-i/", "name": "Queens Quotes by Elizabeth I", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/queens/elizabeth-i/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/elizabeth-i-3475_beggar_if-i-follow-the-inclination-of-my-nature_1260190.jpg" }, "description": "11 Queens quotes by Elizabeth I. 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