Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. – Elizabeth I
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. – Elizabeth I
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better. – Elizabeth I
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. – Elizabeth I