Quotes by : Elizabeth I

The past can not be cured.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers....

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a King and of....

God forgive you, but I never can.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having....

And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved,....

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

I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,I do, yet dare not....

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private....