Quotes by Elizabeth I, Collected Works

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“If we still advise we shall never do.”

“If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.”

“[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.”

Common Themes

“(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)"[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify ...”

— Elizabeth I, Collected Works

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“As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will ...”

— Elizabeth I, Collected Works

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“If we still advise we shall never do.”

— Elizabeth I, Collected Works

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“If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.”

— Elizabeth I, Collected Works

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“[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, Collected Works

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“[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath...”

— Elizabeth I, Collected Works

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