Elizabeth I Quotes - Page 5

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• No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

  Elizabeth I

  Pain, Player, Cities

  1572 Royal proclamation, banning football from the streets of London.

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• I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

  Elizabeth I

  Memories, Reading, Pruning

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• Have a care over my people. You have my people--do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See unto them--see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am.

  Elizabeth I

  People, Care, Praying

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• I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Blood, People

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

  Elizabeth I

  Discrimination, Lord, Inequality

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• Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

  Elizabeth I

  Marriage, Grace, Doubt

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• 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.

  Elizabeth I

  Believe, Doctrine, Answers

  Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament, in S. Clarke 'The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History' (1675) pt. 2, bk. 1 'The Life of Queen Elizabeth' p. 94

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• Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

  Elizabeth I

  May, Greater

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• If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Being Single, Dignity

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• I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.

  Elizabeth I

  Peace, Years, Names

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• [On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Lows, Mary

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• Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

  Elizabeth I

  Government, Might, Wit

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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.

  Elizabeth I

  Bravery, Scary, Soldier

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• The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

  Elizabeth I

  Death, Names, Dying

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• I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

  Elizabeth I

  Shepherds, Ashes, Reign

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• Young heads take example of the ancient

  Elizabeth I

  Example, Ancient, Young

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• O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

  Elizabeth I

  Care, Wavering, Woe

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• Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

  Elizabeth I

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Doctors

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• It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

  Elizabeth I

  Sex, Virtue, Natural

  Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2000). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.223, University of Chicago Press

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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.

  Elizabeth I

  Hate, Wish, Demise

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.248, University of Chicago Press

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• I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

  Elizabeth I

  Regret, Slave, Unhappiness

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• I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

  Elizabeth I

  Children, Believe, People

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• The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.

  Elizabeth I

  Freedom, Rights, Air

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• Hang Irish harpers wherever found.

  Elizabeth I

  Found, Harper

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• The end crowneth the work.

  Elizabeth I

  Ends

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