Elizabeth I Quotes - Page 4

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• All my possessions for a moment of time.

  Elizabeth I

  Time, Moments, Famous Last Words

  Last words

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

  Elizabeth I

  Strength, Reality, Hands

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• My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

  Elizabeth I

  Lying, Shadow, Done

  c.1582 'On Monsieur's Departure'.

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• 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.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, People, Thankfulness

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.337, University of Chicago Press

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• The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

  Elizabeth I

  Nature, Ocean, Science

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• If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Climbing, Hiking

  Lines after Sir Walter Ralegh, written on a window-pane: Thomas Fuller 'Worthies of England' vol. 1, p. 419.

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• Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Greedy, Masters

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• Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

  Elizabeth I

  Father, Men, Alive

  Quoted in Christian Review, Oct. 1846

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• I would not open windows into men's souls.

  Elizabeth I

  Men, Soul, Civil Rights

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• Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

  Elizabeth I

  Loss, May, Rewards

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• [On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

  Elizabeth I

  Men, Littles, Wit

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• I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.

  Elizabeth I

  Husband, Kingdoms, England

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

  Elizabeth I

  Loss, Ears, Bigs

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• The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

  Elizabeth I

  Daughter, Argument, Debate

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• And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Sports, Kings

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• There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

  Elizabeth I

  Wisdom, Fool, Should

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• 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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• I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

  Elizabeth I

  Able, Affection, Fear Of Death

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• It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

  Elizabeth I

  Friends, Adversity, Special

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

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• When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,
  Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;
  But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
  "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere!
  Importune me no more!

  Elizabeth I

  Rejection, Mistress, Favors

  Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2000). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.

  Elizabeth I

  Reading, Together, Gathering

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• No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

  Elizabeth I

  Pain, Player, Cities

  1572 Royal proclamation, banning football from the streets of London.

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• I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Blood, People

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.

  Elizabeth I

  Peace, Years, Names

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• Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.

  Elizabeth I

  Love, Crowns, Glory

  The Golden Speech, 1601, in 'The Journals of All the Parliaments During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth'... Collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1682) p. 659

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