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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
Politician
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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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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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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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
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God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
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Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.
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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
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I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
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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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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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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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Affection! Affection is false.
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