Elizabeth I Quotes

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

God forgive you, but I never can.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

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.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.