Quote

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

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
Leaders
Anger
Leader
Head
Make
Shorter
Council
Opposed

More quotes by Elizabeth I

Image
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Elizabeth I
Image
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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
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.
Elizabeth I
Image
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
Image
God forgive you, but I never can.
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
Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
Elizabeth I
Image
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Elizabeth I
Image
It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
Elizabeth I
Image
It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
Elizabeth I
Image
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.
Elizabeth I
Image
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.
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
Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
Elizabeth I
Image
A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
Elizabeth I
Image
I don't keep a dog and bark myself.
Elizabeth I
Image
... [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.
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