Elizabeth ITo 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. ✨ 1601 Address to parliament. Quoted in G R Elton Renais… ▶371Humor
Elizabeth IHe who placed me in this seat will keep me here.361Reading
Elizabeth I[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 (2002). Eliz… ▶372DeathTime
Elizabeth IThe past cannot be cured.362Time
Elizabeth IAs 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 anoin… ▶373Death
Elizabeth IMonarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.352DeathPolitics
Elizabeth IA strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.375Politics
Elizabeth IThere is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me353Truth
Elizabeth IAs for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what t… ▶375DeathLife
Elizabeth IA clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.332Politics
Elizabeth IAnd 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 la… ▶354DeathHumanityLove
Elizabeth ILife is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.311Life
Elizabeth IGod forgive you, but I never can.324Thought
Elizabeth II 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. ✨ Speech to troops at Tilbury, England (1588).346Love
Elizabeth IThis is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes. ✨ Fictional character: Elizabeth. Elizabeth, www.imdb.com. 1998.368Humanity
Elizabeth IThose who appear the most sanctified are the worst346Philosophy
Elizabeth II have no desire to make windows into men's souls. ✨ Fictional character: Elizabeth. Elizabeth, www.imdb.com. 1998.281Philosophy
Elizabeth IYe may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.303Reflection
Elizabeth IBrass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. ✨ Letter, 1581.293Sadness
Elizabeth II do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman. ✨ The Public Speaking of Queen Elizabeth: Selections from Her Official Addresses.3610Love
Elizabeth IA meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.271Reading
Elizabeth IMen fight wars. Women win them.282Reading
Elizabeth IFor, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety o… ▶359Thought
Elizabeth II 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 (2002). Elizabeth I: Collected Works, p.337, Universi… ▶3510Humanity
Elizabeth II have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.349Reading
Elizabeth IKings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to b… ▶338Hope
Elizabeth II find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!251Thought
Elizabeth IIf I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.306Hope
Elizabeth IAnswer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I bel… ▶273LifeReading
Elizabeth II will have here but one mistress and no master. ✨ The Wit and Wisdom of Queen Bess.285Philosophy
