If we still advise we shall never do.

— Elizabeth I

I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

— Elizabeth I

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

— Elizabeth I

I know I have but 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

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

I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king

— Elizabeth I

[I]n 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.

— Elizabeth I

I observe and remain silent.

— Elizabeth I

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

— Elizabeth I

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

— Elizabeth I