Elizabeth I

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#conscience #fears #innocent #nothing

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

#god #god hath #hath #i #i do

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#faith #secrets #silence #tell #tested

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

#england #feeble #heart #i #king

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#fair #gold #ignorant #shines

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

— Elizabeth I

#bends #considered #find #i #me

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#cannot #descend #destruction #fear #lion

All my possessions for a moment of time. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#possessions #time

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

— Elizabeth I

#late #past #peril #too #too late

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#honours #husband #i #i do #love