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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
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 Elisabetta I
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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
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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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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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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.
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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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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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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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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
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Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
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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.
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I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
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It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
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I would not open windows into men's souls.
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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
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I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart
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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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I don't keep a dog and bark myself.
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Affection! Affection is false.
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