The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
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.
Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
![... [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.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/elizabeth-i-of-england-120236.jpg)
... [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.
If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.
I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.
Young heads take example of the ancient
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.
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!
If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.
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.
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.
Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
![[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/elizabeth-i-of-england-120218.jpg)
[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.
He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.
I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.
Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.
A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
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.
I would not open windows into men's souls.
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.
I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
