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Elizabeth I
September 7, 1533 - March 24, 1603
Nationality: English
Category: Royalty
Subcategory: English Royalty

The word must is not to be used to princes.

   

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

   

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

   

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

   

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.

   

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

   

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

   

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.

   

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

   

If we still advise we shall never do.

   

The past cannot be 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.

   

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

   

God forgive you, but I never can.

   

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

   

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

   

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