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
men littles wit
[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
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.
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.
men dozen shoulders
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
time men world
... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.
heart men not-afraid
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
learning men years
I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.
men soul civil-rights
I would not open windows into men's souls.
witty anger men
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
men smoking gold
I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.
queens father men
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
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