153 Quotes by Elizabeth I
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we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.
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I don't keep a dog and bark myself.
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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight ...
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It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends ...
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I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.
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[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.
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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
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I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.
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