Quotes by : Elizabeth I

[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried],....

God forgive you, but I never can.

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

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

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....

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

If we still advise we shall never do.

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

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

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