Quotes by : Elizabeth I

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

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

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

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....

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen....

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....

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.