I have the heart and stomach of a king

The past cannot be cured.

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—	Queen Elizabeth I (via trepatukas)

And in the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

In Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the Tudor Dynasty produced two of the most famous monarchs in English history.

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—	The Tudors (via emphaticheart)

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

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—	To the Fenelon, the French Ambassador. Chamberlin, The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth (1923), ch. 13.

What a family is without a steward, a ship
without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a
body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom
without the health and safety of a good monarch.

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—	To her brother, King Edward, c.1550. Chamberlin, The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth (1923), ch. 1.

I may not be a lion, but I am
a lion’s cub, and I have a lion’s heart

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—	*Elizabeth I* (via deoxyribose)

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

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—	Queen Elizabeth I

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

Elizabeth I,

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.

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—	Elizabeth I, on her death bed.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England

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