It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting. Elizabeth I More Quotes by Elizabeth I More Quotes From Elizabeth I 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. Elizabeth I safetyleadershipthinking [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. Elizabeth I queensendsstones Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus. Elizabeth I inequalitydiscriminationlord Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you. Elizabeth I bulletscheerwant He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors. Elizabeth I benefactorsgods-willforget I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood. Elizabeth I queensbloodpeople Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. Elizabeth I ignorantmoneyshining If we still advise we shall never do. Elizabeth I advisestillsifs 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 kingskindnesslong I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life. Elizabeth I readinggatheringtogether I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution. Elizabeth I unhappinessslaveregret A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. Elizabeth I stupidtoo-latepast Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight. Elizabeth I strongmaytwo Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be Elizabeth I queen-of-england 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. Elizabeth I greatest-wealthtonguemen 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. Elizabeth I queensmayson The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell! Elizabeth I dyingnamesdeath O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit! Elizabeth I waveringwoecare 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 pruningreadingmemories If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles. Elizabeth I religioustwojesus
