Queen Of England Quotes

• 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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• 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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• I thank God I am endued 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

  Thank God, Quality, Able

  Speech to Members of Parliament, 5 Nov. 1566

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• Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be

  Elizabeth I

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

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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.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Reality, Crowns

  1601 Address to parliament. Quoted in G R Elton Renaissance and Reformation 1300-1648 (2nd edn, 1968), p.134.

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• If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Climbing, Hiking

  Lines after Sir Walter Ralegh, written on a window-pane: Thomas Fuller 'Worthies of England' vol. 1, p. 419.

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• I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

  Elizabeth I

  Marriage, Queens, Mother And Daughter

  Statement to the envoy of Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, January 26, 1563.

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• Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

  Elizabeth I

  Motivational, Witty, Anger

  To Sir Edward Dyer, in T. Tenison (ed.) 'Baconiana' (1679) Apophthegm 5

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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.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Courage, Kings

  Speech to troops at Tilbury, England (1588).

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• God forgive you, but I never can.

  Elizabeth I

  Forgiving, God Forgives

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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 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.

  Elizabeth I

  Hate, Lying, Grieving

  c.1582 'On Monsieur's Departure'.

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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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• The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

  Elizabeth I

  Nature, Ocean, Science

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• 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.

  Elizabeth I

  Lying, Shadow, Done

  c.1582 'On Monsieur's Departure'.

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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 do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, People, Thankfulness

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.337, University of Chicago Press

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• Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

  Althea Gibson

  Queens, Hands, Long

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• Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Queens, Hands, Office

  "Queen urges Cwealth leaders to be bold". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. October 28, 2011.

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• If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Queens, President

  "Exclusive Interview With Maya Angelou on Her New Book, Mom & Me & Mom". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Queens, Atheism, President

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• I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's very easy to underrate her significance. I think she finds the Commonwealth and her position as Head of the Commonwealth infinitely more interesting than being the Queen of England, because she has no significant role in the latter.

  Bob Hawke

  Queens, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Obama has always been, while President, has been close to the Queen of England, and the Queen of England has a standing policy now, which has been going on for some time, saying that we have to reduce the human population, on this planet, from 7 billion people down to less than 1! That is her avowed policy.

  Lyndon LaRouche

  Queens, People, President

  Source: larouchepac.com

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• The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.

  Henry Winkler

  Queens, Children, Order

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

  Victoria Moran

  Queens, Order, Mind

  "The Case for Turning ‘Spa’ into a Verb" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2011.

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