Elizabeth I Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

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

#Silence #Secret

“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
-- Elizabeth I

#Time #Moments #Last Words

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

#Love #Queens #Husband

“I will have but one mistress and no master”
-- Elizabeth I

#Mistress #Masters

“There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.”
-- Elizabeth I

#Jesus #Christ #Disputes

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

#Marriage #Queens #Mother And Daughter

“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

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

#Hype #Deception #Praying

“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

#Kings #Women #Heart

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

#Strong Women #Sex #Rocks

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

#Money #Shining #Ignorant

“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

“The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.”
-- Elizabeth I

#Stones #Recoil #Throwers

“He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.”
-- Elizabeth I

“If we still advise we shall never do.”
-- Elizabeth I

#Advise #Stills

“A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.”
-- Elizabeth I

#Beer #Perfect #Meals

“And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.”
-- Elizabeth I

#Leadership #Sports #Kings

“Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst”
-- Elizabeth I

#Worst

“I observe and remain silent.”
-- Elizabeth I

#Silent #Diplomacy

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”
-- Elizabeth I

#Witty #Anger #Men

“I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.”
-- Elizabeth I

#Husband #Kingdoms #England

“I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart”
-- Elizabeth I

#Heart #Lions #May

“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

“The past cannot be cured.”
-- Elizabeth I

#Past

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

#Suffering #Crowns #Reputation

“Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.”
-- Elizabeth I

#Loyalty #Peace #Faithful

“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

“There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue”
-- Elizabeth I

#Teaching #Would Be #Tongue

“Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be”
-- Elizabeth I