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niyad

(113,239 posts) Fri Sep 7, 2012, 12:39 PM Sep 2012

quotes of the day--elizabeth 1

Elizabeth I Quotes

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Elizabeth I

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Elizabeth I

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
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

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

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

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
Elizabeth I

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Elizabeth I

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

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
Elizabeth I

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God forgive you, but I never can.
Elizabeth I

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Elizabeth I

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

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
Elizabeth I

The past cannot be cured.
Elizabeth I

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Elizabeth I

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Elizabeth I

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Elizabeth I

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Elizabeth I

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
Elizabeth I
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quotes of the day--elizabeth 1 (Original Post) niyad Sep 2012 OP

"I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception. " Voice for Peace Sep 2012 #1

As Good as Those Quotes Are, On the Road Sep 2012 #2

When she came to the throne upon the death of her SheilaT Sep 2012 #3

Voice for Peace

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

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 01:02 PM

Sep 2012

love it

On the Road

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2. As Good as Those Quotes Are,

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 01:15 PM

Sep 2012

she was only able to say this one because she was Queen:

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

SheilaT

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3. When she came to the throne upon the death of her

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 01:58 PM

Sep 2012

sister Mary on November 17, 1558, there was basically no money in the treasury. Her older sister Mary and her younger brother Edward had spent what surplus their father, Henry VIII at built up. Among other things they got involved in poorly thought out and disastrous wars. Gosh, there's something familiar about this that I can't quite put my finger on.

Anyway, when Elizabeth came to the throne the most important thing she had to do was get the country in better economic shape. Which mean, not going to war. In fact, she was known to tell her privy council "No war, my lords, no war," every time they'd suggest one. She avoided war for thirty years, until Spain tried to invade with the Spanish Armada.

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