Elizabeth I Quotes

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
Elizabeth I

Love, Husband, Woman

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Elizabeth I

Nothing, Conscience, Innocent

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
Elizabeth I

Rock, Sex, Find

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

Heart, Woman, Body

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Elizabeth I

Faith, Silence, Tell

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

Thankful, God, Made

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Elizabeth I

Nature, Fear, Small

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Elizabeth I

Fair, Ignorant, Gold

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Elizabeth I

Fool, Past, Late

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
Elizabeth I

Worth, Head, Shoulders

All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth I

God forgive you, but I never can.
Elizabeth I

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

Alone, Single, Rather

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
Elizabeth I

God, Live, Thought

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
Elizabeth I

Heart, Woman, Afraid

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Elizabeth I

Heart, Climb, Thy

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Elizabeth I

Father, Used, Word

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
Elizabeth I

Worst, Appear, Sanctified

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

God, Brave, Soldiers

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

Children, Parents, Nothing

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Elizabeth I

Rather, Reputation, Suffer

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

Sex, Natural, Virtue

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
Elizabeth I

Religion, God, Leave

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Elizabeth I

Strength, Hand, Head

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

Death, Hate, Wish

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: September 7, 1533

Died: March 24, 1603

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