Elizabeth I Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• 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 good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Father, Men

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

• Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Kindness, Long

• I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

  Elizabeth I

  Thank God, Quality, Able

  Speech to Members of Parliament, 5 Nov. 1566

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