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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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
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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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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
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I would not open windows into men's souls.
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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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The past cannot be cured.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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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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[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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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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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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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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Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
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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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It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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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!
Elizabeth I
Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
Elizabeth I
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.
Elizabeth I
Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.
Elizabeth I
