Elizabeth I

I will make a difference between the obedient and the disobedient.

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, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely, the kingdom of England.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

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

I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat, I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

Small remedies work great cures.

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

My mind was never to marry.

It is not my desire to live or reign longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this royal seat, yet you never had, nor shall have, any that will love you better.

I have been ever averse to any one's dictating to me in things which concern myself.

There is no prince in the world who can boast of having a people more faithful and obedient than mine.

I am not so simple as to not know that every woman loves a purse.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

The greater the danger, the greater the glory.

I assure you, I am not a person who will be influenced by any prince living, to change my religion.

My power is in your hearts.

They that know me best know that I have ever loved to live in peace.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my own ship.