Queen Elizabeth I Quotes

There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my...

Queen Elizabeth I

The Golden Speech - 1601 - Delivered to the House of Commons on November 30, 1601.

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I know the title of a King is a glorious title, but assure yourself that the shining glory of princely authority hath not so dazzled the eyes of our understanding, but that we well know and remember...

Queen Elizabeth I

The Golden Speech - 1601 - Delivered to the House of Commons on November 30, 1601.

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I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty...

Queen Elizabeth I

The Golden Speech - 1601 - Delivered to the House of Commons on November 30, 1601.

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Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my Crown, that I have reigned with your loves.

Queen Elizabeth I

The Golden Speech - 1601 - Delivered to the House of Commons on November 30, 1601.

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By your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.

Queen Elizabeth I

Speech to the Troops at Tilbury - 1588 - Delivered at Tilbury, Essex on August 19, 1588.

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Rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already, for your...

Queen Elizabeth I

Speech to the Troops at Tilbury - 1588 - Delivered at Tilbury, Essex on August 19, 1588.

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I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe,...

Queen Elizabeth I

Speech to the Troops at Tilbury on the approach of the Armada, Delivered at Tilbury, Essex on August 19, 1588.

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Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.

Queen Elizabeth I

Speech to the Troops at Tilbury - 1588 - Delivered at Tilbury, Essex on August 19, 1588.

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God may forgive you, but I never can.

Queen Elizabeth I

To the Countess of Nottingham. Quoted in The History of England Under the House of Tudor - 1759 by David Hume.

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If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

Queen Elizabeth I

Rhyming response written on a windowpane beneath Sir Walter Raleigh's writing: "Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall." As quoted in The History of the Worthies of England - 1662 by Thomas Fuller.

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