Elizabeth I Tudor Quotes

The past can not be cured.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

I observe and remain silent.

If we still advise we shall never do.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

I know I have but 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.