Quote

The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.

Elizabeth I

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Violating
Cannot
Public
Usage
Wells
Rights
Exclusion
Without
Nations
Well
Common
Pretend
Right
Freedom
Sea
Thing
Free
Air
Others
Nation
Nature
Particular

More quotes by Elizabeth I

Image
Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
Elizabeth I
Image
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.
Elizabeth I
Image
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.
Elizabeth I
Image
A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
Elizabeth I
Image
They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
Elizabeth I
Image
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.
Elizabeth I
Image
Affection! Affection is false.
Elizabeth I
Image
Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
Elizabeth I
Image
The word must is not to be used to princes.
Elizabeth I
Image
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.
Elizabeth I
Image
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
Elizabeth I
Image
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
Image
He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
Elizabeth I
Image
Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
Elizabeth I
Image
Men fight wars. Women win them.
Elizabeth I
Image
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
Elizabeth I
Image
It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
Elizabeth I
Image
I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.
Elizabeth I
Image
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
Elizabeth I
Image
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