Elizabeth I Quotes

Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.

Little man, little man! The word ‘must’ is not to be used to princes!

My lord, we make use of you, not for your bad legs, but for your good head.

I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king—and a king of England too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

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.

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

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 endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place of Christendom.

If I am to disclose to you what I should prefer if I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married!