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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth Tudor

(1533 - 1603)

Former Queen of England and Ireland

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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Failing
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Suffering
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

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

Former Queen of England and Ireland

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.
Weakness - Woman
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

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.
Quiet
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.
Education
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
Food - Perfection
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!
Death
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
Marriage
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

If we still advise we shall never do.
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

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

Former Queen of England and Ireland

It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
Monster
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

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

Former Queen of England and Ireland

There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.
Monster - Movement
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
Man
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.
Death - Finding - Sovereignty
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

The past cannot be cured.
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
Bravery - Frightening - Giving
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Elizabeth I

Former Queen of England and Ireland

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
Debating
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