Quotes from Elizabeth I

I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

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.

The end crowneth the work.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.