Elizabeth I: Collected Works
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“I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.”
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“It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.”
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“O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!”
“They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.”
“Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.”
“[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!”
“Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.”
“Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.”
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
“My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.”
“[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.”
“Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.”
“The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!”
“Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.”
“I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.”
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works