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
leadership thinking safety
For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.
leadership sports kings
And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.
leadership courage queens
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.
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.
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.
father men alive
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.
wisdom fool should
There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
men dozen shoulders
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.