Elizabeth I of England Video

I like her not!

I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.

There are only two things: soul and body. My soul I offer to God and my body to Your Majesty's service, and may it please you to kill me rather than take away the old religion in which I wish to live and die.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Love me little, love me long.

The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

The right man comes at the right time.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.

If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

Faith is a continuation of reason.