The past can not be cured.
Elizabeth IAnger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Elizabeth II will have but one mistress and no master
Elizabeth II give you this charge, that you shall be of my Privy Council and content yourself to take pains for me and my realm. This judgement I have of you, that you will not be corrupted with any manner of gift and that you will be faithful to the State, and that without respect of my private will, you will give me that counsel that you think best: and, if you shall know anything necessary to be declared to me of secrecy, you shall show it to myself only and assure yourself I will not fail to keep taciturnity therein. And therefore herewith I charge you.
Administering the oath of office to William Cecil as Secretary of State, November 20, 1558, as quoted in Elizabeth I: The Word of a Prince, A Life from Contemporary Documents, by Maria Perry, Chapter V, Section: To make a good account to Almighty God
And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.
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God forgive you, but I never can.
Elizabeth IThis is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
Elizabeth ITags: historical thankfulness
I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
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All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth IA strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
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