[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. 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 safety leadership thinking [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 queens ends stones Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus. Elizabeth I inequality discrimination lord Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you. Elizabeth I bullets cheer want He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors. Elizabeth I benefactors gods-will forget 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 queens blood people Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. Elizabeth I ignorant money shining If we still advise we shall never do. Elizabeth I advise stills ifs 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 kings kindness long 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 reading gathering together I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution. Elizabeth I unhappiness slave regret A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. Elizabeth I stupid too-late past Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight. Elizabeth I strong may two 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-wealth tongue men 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 queens may son The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell! Elizabeth I dying names death O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit! Elizabeth I wavering woe care 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 pruning reading memories 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 religious two jesus
