Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Iwas 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth7 September 1533
CityGreenwich, England
Elizabeth I quotes about
bogs world over-it
They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
care wavering woe
O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
memories reading pruning
I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.
queens stones ends
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
art expression self
It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
queen-of-england
Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be
teaching tongue would-be
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
bored faults life-is
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
heart lions may
I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart
eye lord old-testament
This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
government might wit
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
queens son may
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.
war enemy danger
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
jest trade
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.