Elizabeth I Quotes
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
If we still advise we shall never do.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
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.
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.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
The end crowneth the work.
The past cannot be cured.
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
The word must is not to be used to princes.
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.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
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.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
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.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
