Quote

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

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
Cloven
Lords
Inequality
Discrimination
Treated
Thus
Lord
Crested

More quotes by Elizabeth I

Image
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
Elizabeth I
Image
My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
Elizabeth I
Image
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Elizabeth I
Image
Men fight wars. Women win them.
Elizabeth I
Image
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
Elizabeth I
Image
The end crowneth the work.
Elizabeth I
Image
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
Elizabeth I
Image
The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
Elizabeth I
Image
[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
Elizabeth I
Image
If we still advise we shall never do.
Elizabeth I
Image
I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.
Elizabeth I
Image
O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
Elizabeth I
Image
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
Elizabeth I
Image
I would not open windows into men's souls.
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
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
Elizabeth I
Image
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Elizabeth I
Image
Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
Elizabeth I