• Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
• 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.
• Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
• A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
• I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
• 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.
• I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
• Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
• God forgive you, but I never can.
• I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart”
• “I will have but one mistress and no master”
• “Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”
• “There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue”

― Elizabeth I

• “Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.”

-- Elizabeth I