Enemy Quote by Elizabeth I

“There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me”

Elizabeth I

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Affection! Affection is false.

Elizabeth I

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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. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity…

Elizabeth I

It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

Elizabeth I

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I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

Elizabeth I

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I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the…

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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

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Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts…

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I would not open windows into men's souls.

Elizabeth I

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The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

Elizabeth I

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I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at…

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Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

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To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

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I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

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