Quotes by : Elizabeth I

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

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.....

The past cannot be cured.

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.

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....

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small....

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome....

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.