I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
From Elizabeth I
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
God forgive you, but I never can.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
All my possessions for a moment of time.
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.
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
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.
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