He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
I will have here but one mistress and no master.
God forgive you, but I never can.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.
I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.
It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.
Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
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.
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.
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.
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed 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.
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