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
fear world sovereign
As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.
causes world royalty
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
moving world body
There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.
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.
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.
forget gods-will benefactors
He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
cheer want bullets
Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.
religious jesus two
If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.
believe doctrine answers
Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it.