Elizabeth I Quotes

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• Men fight wars. Women win them.

  Elizabeth I

  War, Fighting, Winning

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• Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

  Elizabeth I

  Grief, Weakness, Ends

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

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Courage, Kings

  Speech to troops at Tilbury, England (1588).

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• Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

  Elizabeth I

  Strong Women, Sex, Rocks

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

  Elizabeth I

  Silence, Secret, Tested

  "Dating In Midlife And What Secrets To Reveal" by Barbara Hannah Grufferman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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• A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

  Elizabeth I

  Innocence, Innocent, Fear Nothing

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• I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

  Elizabeth I

  Husband, Kingdoms, England

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

  Elizabeth I

  Bored, Faults, Life Is

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• I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Lions, May

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• Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.

  Elizabeth I

  Loyalty, Peace, Kings

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• The past cannot be cured.

  Elizabeth I

  Past

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• Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

  Elizabeth I

  Tree, Substance, Deeds

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• I observe and remain silent.

  Elizabeth I

  Silent, Diplomacy

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• Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst

  Elizabeth I

  Worst

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

  Elizabeth I

  Marriage, Queens, Mother And Daughter

  Statement to the envoy of Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, January 26, 1563.

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• I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

  Elizabeth I

  Learning, Men, Years

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• There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

  Elizabeth I

  Teaching, Tongue, Would Be

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

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Men, Not Afraid

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• Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

  Elizabeth I

  Adversity, Prosperity

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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

  Elizabeth I

  Love, Queens, Husband

  "The Public Speaking of Queen Elizabeth: Selections from Her Official Addresses".

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• There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

  Elizabeth I

  Country, Sake, Anxious

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• Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

  Elizabeth I

  Soul, Chastity

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

  Elizabeth I

  Hype, Deception, Praying

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• When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.

  Elizabeth I

  Drinking, Poison, Disease

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• I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

  Elizabeth I

  Violence

  Speech to Members of Parliament, 5 Nov. 1566

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