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The past can not be cured.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Elizabeth Life

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

Elizabeth I Air All Belong Common Environmental Fair User Freedom Nature Ocean Private Queen Elizabeth Sea Wisdom

I observe and remain silent.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Diplomacy Wisdom

If we still advise we shall never do.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Preach Tudors Wisdom

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

Elizabeth I Achievements Courage Death Defiance Dignity Good Governance Government Qualities Queens Reign Self Confidence Strength Superiority Women

(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify your Serene Highness with the same kind of affection. And that indeed does not happen because we doubt in any way of your love and honour, but, as often we have testified both in words and writing, that we have never yet conceived a feeling of that kind of affection towards anyone.We therefore beg your Serene Highness again and again that you be pleased to set a limit to your love, that it advance not beyond the laws of friendship for the present nor disregard them in the future. ... We certainly think that if God ever direct our hearts to consideration of marriage we shall never accept or choose any absent husband how powerful and wealthy a Prince soever. But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing. I have always given both to your brother ... and also to your ambassador likewise the same answer with scarcely any variation of the words, that we do not conceive in our heart to take a husband but highly commend this single life, and hope that your Serene Highness will no longer spend time in waiting for us.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Bachelorhood Empowerment Freedom Friendship Independence Love Marriage Marriage Proposal Matrimony Queens Refusal Self Determination Singles Women

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

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Bachelorhood British Monarchy British Royal Family Dignity Empowerment Freedom Independence Marriage Matrimony Preference Queens Self Determination Self Reliance Singles Spinsters Women

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Bachelorhood Dignity Freedom Good Governance Government Independence Marriage Matrimony Mementos Memory Queens Reign Self Determination Singles Sufficiency Virginity Women

I know I have but 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

Elizabeth I England Kings Men Queens Royalty Strength Women

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

Elizabeth I Leadership Queen Spain Spanish Armada

I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Strength Women

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Boredom Living Working

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

Elizabeth I Elizabeth Legacy Men Poem Queen Tudor

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

Elizabeth I Elizabeth I Love Monarch On Monsieur S Departure Poem Queen

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

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Bravery Fear Spanish Armada Women In Battle

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

Elizabeth I Leaders Leadership

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

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Death Enemies Put

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

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Woman Queen Me

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Fear Lion Small

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

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Head Hand Harm

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I God World Royalty

The past cannot be cured.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Past Cannot Cured

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

Elizabeth I God Queen Me

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Thought Live Deception

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

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Silence Secrets You

God forgive you, but I never can.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I God Forgive You

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Good Wit Where

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Queen Single Married
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