We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Elizabeth I Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
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.
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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.
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.
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
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.
God forgive you, but I never can.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
If we still advise we shall never do.
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.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
The word must is not to be used to princes.
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
The past cannot be cured.
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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.
He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
The end crowneth the work.
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
