Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

- 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

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

- 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 of a king of England too.

- Elizabeth I

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

- Elizabeth I

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.

- Elizabeth I

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

- Elizabeth I

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

- Elizabeth I

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

- Elizabeth I

God forgive you, but I never can.

- Elizabeth I

If we still advise we shall never do.

- Elizabeth I

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

- Elizabeth I

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

- Elizabeth I

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

- Elizabeth I

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

- Elizabeth I

The word must is not to be used to princes.

- Elizabeth I

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

- Elizabeth I

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

- Elizabeth I

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

- Elizabeth I