Quotes By Queen Elizabeth I

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

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

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.

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

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Where minds differ and opinions swerve, there is scant a friend in that company.

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.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

By your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

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

Though after my death you may have many stepdames, yet shall you never have a more natural mother unto you all.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this queen, having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

I will have here but one mistress and no master.

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

If I were turned out of my realm in my petticoat, I would prosper anywhere in Christendom.