Quotes About Elizabeth

France recognized Elizabeth to be the rightful queen of England.

Francis and Mary were to admit that Elizabeth's role in the whole affair had all along been that of an impartial umpire

She prayed that Elizabeth might prosper and long continue to reign, serving God aright.

In Paris, Elizabeth's accession was greeted with unconcealed scorn.

Mary wanted to appeal directly to Elizabeth at the level of queen to queen.

Elizabeth's right to succeed her elder sister on the grounds of bastardy and Protestantism

When Elizabeth heard of Mary's forced abdication, she sent at once for Cecil.

A seismic shift was about to occur, one that discounted her kinship bonds to Elizabeth

Elizabeth was almost speechless with rage.

Philip II and the papacy, and therefore posed a greater threat to Elizabeth's "safety

Elizabeth, her fellow sovereign as much as her rival for the past thirty years, was herself all too anxious to defend the ideal of monarchy: the principle that rulers were accountable to God alone.

Elizabeth had a firm grasp of the issues. She knew that Mary's death would alter the way that monarchy was regarded in the British Isles. A regicide would give a massive boost to Parliament, diminishing forever the "divinity that hedges a king.

Nine days after Elizabeth first offered the interview, she changed her mind.

Elizabeth was still acutely sympathetic to Mary;

Elizabeth's practice to draw hatch marks in pen across the blank spaces of her sensitive and important letters

Mary was not blamed by Elizabeth for causing this, the most serious rebellion of her reign—at least not yet.

her own priority was Elizabeth's latest offer of a final dynastic accord.

She most of all needed Elizabeth's friendship to arm herself against the volatility of her lords

Mary found Elizabeth's letter so insulting, she refused to reply at all.

I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

he simply wasn't up to the manly task of driving a beautiful and complex woman like Elizabeth to brain-banging orgasms—as

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.