Elizabeth I Quotes

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.

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

Men fight wars. Women win them.

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.

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.

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

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

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.