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.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
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.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
The word must is not to be used to princes.
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
All my possessions for a moment of time.
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
The end crowneth the work.
