Elizabeth I QUOTES

2 " 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 ,

3 " If we still advise we shall never do. "

― Elizabeth I , Collected Works

4 " 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 , Collected Works

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

― Elizabeth I , Collected Works

6 " [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. "

― Elizabeth I , Collected Works

7 " [F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present. "

― Elizabeth I , Collected Works

8 " I know I have but 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

9 " 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

10 " I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king "

― Elizabeth I

11 " Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself. "

― Elizabeth I

12 " 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 , Her Life in Letters

13 " 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

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

― Elizabeth I

15 " All my possessions for a moment of time. "

― Elizabeth I

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

― Elizabeth I

17 " A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. "

― Elizabeth I

18 " The past cannot be cured. "

― Elizabeth I

19 " God forgive you, but I never can. "

― Elizabeth I

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

― Elizabeth I

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