Elizabeth I

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government…

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn…

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does…

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested…

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married…

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the…

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen…

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

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to…

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England’s hate neither…