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
As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety… — 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
