Elizabeth I quotes

All my possessions for a moment of time.

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

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

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

God forgive you, but I never can.

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

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

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

The end crowneth the work.

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

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

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

The past cannot be cured.

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.

God forgive you, but I never can.

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