About Elizabeth I: Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
God forgive you, but I never can.
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.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
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.
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
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.
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
The past cannot be cured.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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.
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.
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
