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ELIZABETH I To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to th...
ELIZABETH I I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
ELIZABETH I I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and o...
ELIZABETH I Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
ELIZABETH I All my possessions for a moment of time.
ELIZABETH I You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words.
EYDEN I. As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have ...
ELIZABETH I I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
ELIZABETH I Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dan...
ELIZABETH I Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
STANISLAUS I Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such s...
ELIZABETH I Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends ...
ELIZABETH I (Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)
"[W]hile we perceive ... th...
ELIZABETH I [F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., un...
ELIZABETH I [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having...
ELIZABETH I To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it.
STANISLAS I Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.