Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Iwas Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth7 September 1533
CityGreenwich, England
husband eye home
There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle.
husband england kingdoms
I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.
husband england kingdoms
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
friends adversity special
It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends ...
queens stones ends
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
heart lions may
I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart
government might wit
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
jest trade
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
affection
Affection! Affection is false.
men littles wit
[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
rejection mistress favors
When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!
reading together pruning
I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.
men greatest-wealth care
If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.
heart tyrants loyal
Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.