Queen Of England Quotes

• Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Son, May

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• This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.

  Elizabeth I

  Eye, Old Testament, Lord

  "Fictional character: Elizabeth". "Elizabeth", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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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 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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• 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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• To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Reality, Crowns

  1601 Address to parliament. Quoted in G R Elton Renaissance and Reformation 1300-1648 (2nd edn, 1968), p.134.

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• Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

  Elizabeth I

  Motivational, Witty, Anger

  To Sir Edward Dyer, in T. Tenison (ed.) 'Baconiana' (1679) Apophthegm 5

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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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• Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be

  Elizabeth I

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• God forgive you, but I never can.

  Elizabeth I

  Forgiving, God Forgives

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• 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

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• I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. 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

  Hate, Lying, Grieving

  c.1582 'On Monsieur's Departure'.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Elizabeth I

  Hate, Wish, Demise

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.248, University of Chicago Press

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• Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

  Althea Gibson

  Queens, Hands, Long

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• Those of you who have been there [Haiti] know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground.... It is an amazing place. I strongly recommend that whenever you get a chance, if you haven't been there, that you go to Haiti. I think it was a certain Queen of England who said that after her death "Calais" would be found written on her heart. When I die, I think that "Haiti" is going to be written on my heart.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Country, Queens

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• Valentino lives his life like the Queen of England - he lives in the bubble. But he designs for royals, so it's almost a business decision, even though he would do it anyway. He wants to be part of that world.

  Matt Tyrnauer

  Design, Decision, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I am going to be the future bloody Queen of England I'm going to wear that dress once because I'm giving up the rest of my life, all of my privacy. At least I can get a new dress every day!

  Kelly Osbourne

  Queens, Giving Up, England

  "'If I had that job I would only wear a dress once': Now Kelly Osbourne takes a swipe at Kate Middleton". www.dailymail.co.uk. August 6, 2011.

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• I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Fashion, Queens, Advice

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.

  Leonard Cohen

  Queens, Heart, Design

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.232, Vintage

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• We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

  Philippa Gregory

  Queens, Might, England

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.800, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

  Philippa Gregory

  Queens, Way, Lasts

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Red Queen”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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