Quotes about Elizabeth i

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The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed — Christopher Hitchens
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 t — Shannon L. Alder
This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-rem — Christopher Hitchens
Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Masculines, you have t — Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet
Elizabeth's whole style of rule was pragmatic and free from preconceptions. It was not that she had no strategic aims, b — David Loades, Elizabeth I
In no issue of foreign policy could her prevarication and indecisiveness be said to have led to disastrous consequences — David Loades, Elizabeth I
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 — Shannon L. Alder
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribe — Sigmund Freud
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up. — Charles Dickens
I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare. — Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service. — Jeane Westin, His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt of a service. — Jeane Westin, His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have — Elizabeth I
If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term. — Alison Weir
Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion. — Jeane Westin, His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
Only danger is real, and difficulty. Yet we live to make our lives safe - and those of others. (..) I will fight my own — Margaret Irwin, Elizabeth, Captive Princess
It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done. — Margaret Irwin, Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn't standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no — Bayard Louis
The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps. — Johann Hari