Elizabeth I Quotes - Page 6

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• There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle.

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  Husband, Eye, Home

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• Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Son, May

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• If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

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  Men, Greatest Wealth, Tongue

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• The word must is not to be used to princes.

  Elizabeth I

  Used

  1603 To Robert Cecil when, during her last illness, he told her that she must go to bed. Quoted in Christopher Haigh Elizabeth I (1988), p.24.

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• 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.

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  Fear, Causes, World

  Speech to Parliament, 1586, in William Camden 'Annales rerum anglicanum' (1615) bk. 3

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• ... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.

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  Time, Men, World

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• If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

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  Integrity, Work, Done

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• we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.

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  Sight, Views, World

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• Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.

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  Kings, Angel, Should Have

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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