“The past can not be cured.”

“I observe and remain silent.”

“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.”

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

“Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.”

“And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God...”

“Elizabeth's whole style of rule was pragmatic and free from preconceptions. It was not that she had no strategic aims, but they were broad and simple. God had entrusted her with three things: a rea...”

“In no issue of foreign policy could her prevarication and indecisiveness be said to have led to disastrous consequences for her country. On the international stage there was no better survivor. At ...”

“Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.”

“Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.”