Elizabeth I Quotes
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
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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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God forgive you, but I never can.
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Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
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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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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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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
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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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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 shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
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To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
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If we still advise we shall never do.
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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 has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
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A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
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The past cannot be cured.
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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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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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He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.