One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
A good face is the best letter of recommendation.
There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.
I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.
He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.
It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
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.
Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
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.
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.
Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.
I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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