Queen Elizabeth I Quotes
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![Dorothy L. Sayers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1519840173i/8734._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first.”
― Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
― Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard because anything worth having in this world will take me to the very edge of myself. I will overcome everything I have ever gone through and will make my future the one God intended me to have. I will pick up the pieces of this pain and sculpt it into art. I am not ordinary and never was. I walk into my birthright as a queen with her head held high. I was born to do this!”
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![Sigmund Freud](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1406688955i/10017._CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.”
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![Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1393555704i/12080._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.”
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![Cynthia Hand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391184546i/3290920._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I know Jane is dear to you," Bess said. "I also know that she's in danger. But Jane is one person, Edward. There are thousands of lives at stake. There's a kingdom on the edge of a knife. We must tread carefully.”
― My Lady Jane
― My Lady Jane
![Jeane Westin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1295723195i/194471._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before her questioners or her guards. In men's minds fear was a certain mark of guilt.”
― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
![Jeane Westin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1295723195i/194471._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled?”
― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
![W. Somerset Maugham](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1414096390i/4176632._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“Sir Walter Raleigh is more safely enshrined in the memory of mankind because he set his cloak for the Virgin Queen to walk on than because he carried the english name to undiscovered countries.”
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![Jeane Westin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1295723195i/194471._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Robert bowed to the inevitable. The queen's motto, 'I see all and speak nothing." was as well chosen as any motto could be. He had almost made his old mistake of confusing what Elizabeth said with what she would do.”
― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
![Jeane Westin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1295723195i/194471._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt of a service.”
― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
“The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn't standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should always be spelled the same way. So people spelled things however they heard them or however made sense. I mean the name Shakespeare had something like 16 different spellings, and the way he spelled it isn't the way we spell it.- School of Night - pg 44”
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![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.”
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![Jean Plaidy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1237699211i/6590._CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Vale la pena luchar por la libertad; vale la pena pagar un alto precio por ella, porque morir por la libertad es dejar esta vida en un derroche de gloria que destruye nuestras debilidades del pasado y nos vuelve uno con los héroes”
― Queen of This Realm
― Queen of This Realm
![Philippa Gregory](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1560883006i/9987._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“It’s not his friendship I miss,’ Elizabeth said bluntly. ‘It’s him. The very person of him. His presence. I want his shadow on my wall, I want the smell of him. I can’t eat without him, I can’t do the business of the realm. I can’t read a book without wanting his opinion, I can’t hear a tune without wanting to sing it to him.”
― The Virgin's Lover
― The Virgin's Lover
![Elizabeth I](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1342616513i/4380234._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.”
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![Justin Scott](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1442453495i/68407._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“He imagined this was the sort of shadow battle Queen Elizabeth had fought her entire reign—starting as a young woman alone, besieged by foreign kings and English nobles who would marry her crown, always steps behind grizzled courtiers like Lord Burghley. No! Rarely steps behind. She was steps ahead or she would never have survived so long.”
― The Sister Queens
― The Sister Queens
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