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

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

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

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

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

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

God forgive you, but I never can.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

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

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

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

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

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

The word must is not to be used to princes.

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

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.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

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

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

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

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.

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

The past cannot be cured.

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.

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

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

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

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

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

The end crowneth the work.

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

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

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

If we still advise we shall never do.

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

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

The use of sea and air is common to all neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

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.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight, but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.