Elizabeth I Men Quotations

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

I would not open windows into men's souls.

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

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.