Elizabeth I Quotes

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Elizabeth I

Profession : Royalty

Birth : September 7, 1533

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

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

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There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

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God forgive you, but I never can.

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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.

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My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

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

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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.

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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

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

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

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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

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I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

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

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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.

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There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

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The word must is not to be used to princes.

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I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

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If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

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