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Elizabeth I Inspirational Quotes (84)

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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Elizabeth I
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As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.
Elizabeth I
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I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
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There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.
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For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.
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A good face is the best letter of recommendation.
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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.
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
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[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.
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I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.
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Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.
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I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.
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They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
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If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
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we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
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I would not open windows into men's souls.
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[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
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Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
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God forgive you, but I never can.
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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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Men fight wars. Women win them.
Elizabeth I
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