Elizabeth I Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Father, Men

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

  Elizabeth I

  Men, Smoking, Gold

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• He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

  Elizabeth I

  Forget, Gods Will, Benefactors

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• I don't keep a dog and bark myself.

  Elizabeth I

  Dog, Bark, Delegation

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• The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

  Elizabeth I

  Joy, Doubt, Exile

  c.1568 'The Doubt of Future Foes'.

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• There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me

  Elizabeth I

  Italian, Enemy, Lord

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• Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

  Elizabeth I

  War, Enemy, Danger

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• 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.

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Tyrants, Loyal

  Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 19, 1588.

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• This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.

  Elizabeth I

  Eye, Old Testament, Lord

  "Fictional character: Elizabeth". "Elizabeth", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• 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.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Kindness, Long

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• Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

  Elizabeth I

  Cheer, Want, Bullets

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• I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

  Elizabeth I

  Alive, Should, Graves

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• It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Feet, Should

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.98, University of Chicago Press

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• It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

  Elizabeth I

  Jest, Trade

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• My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Heart, Thinking

  Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 19, 1588.

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• Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

  Elizabeth I

  Money, Shining, Ignorant

  Letter, 1581.

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• I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

  Elizabeth I

  Names, Deception, Different

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• Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

  Elizabeth I

  Mind, Opinion, Swerve

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• 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.

  Elizabeth I

  Religious, Jesus, Two

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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.

  Elizabeth I

  Lions, Beast, Destruction

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• Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Greedy, Masters

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• Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.

  Elizabeth I

  Love, Crowns, Glory

  The Golden Speech, 1601, in 'The Journals of All the Parliaments During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth'... Collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1682) p. 659

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• He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

  Elizabeth I

  Seats

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• I would not open windows into men's souls.

  Elizabeth I

  Men, Soul, Civil Rights

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• Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be

  Elizabeth I

  Queen Of England

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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