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 More Quotes by Elizabeth I More Quotes From Elizabeth I Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends. Elizabeth I prosperity adversity I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything. Elizabeth I not-afraid heart men A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. Elizabeth I strength hands reality There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles. Elizabeth I disputes jesus christ Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul. Elizabeth I chastity soul There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster. Elizabeth I allies monsters moving I don't keep a dog and bark myself. Elizabeth I bark delegation dog I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet. Elizabeth I learning men years The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof. Elizabeth I ocean nature science It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression. Elizabeth I expression self art [To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart. Elizabeth I queens self oxford The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. Elizabeth I recoil throwers stones This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes. Elizabeth I old-testament eye lord [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 settling parliament duty Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age. Elizabeth I educational eye sight I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done. Elizabeth I hate grieving lying Affection! Affection is false. Elizabeth I affection One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. Elizabeth I dozen shoulders men Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it. Elizabeth I doctrine answers believe I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman. Elizabeth I queens husband love
