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

Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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Queen Of England
Greenwich Palace
The Virgin Queen
Gloriana
Good Queen Bess
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elizabeth I
the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
Queen of England Bess
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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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.
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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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There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
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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. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.
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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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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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I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.
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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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My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
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No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.
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I thank God I am endued 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.
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God forgive you, but I never can.
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The end crowneth the work.
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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.
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I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.
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