— Elizabeth I of England, On Monsieur's Departure
"On Monsieur's Departure" (February 1582).
Zitate Elisabeth I. von England
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (1588)
Letter to Edward Seymour, Lord Protector (28 January 1549), quoted in Leah Marcus, Janel Mueller and Mary Rose (eds.), Elizabeth I: Collected Works (The University of Chicago Press, 2002), p. 24.
— Elizabeth I of England, On Monsieur's Departure
"On Monsieur's Departure" (February 1582).
Response to Parliament (October 1566).
„I would not open windows into men's souls.“
Oral tradition, possibly originating in a letter drafted for her by Francis Bacon. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nkJad0EYVxIC&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.co,/books?id=0yA-MQLwOtEC&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=false
Letter to Amias Paulet (August 1586), the gaoler of Mary, Queen of Scots, quoted in Leah Marcus, Janel Mueller and Mary Rose (eds.), Elizabeth I: Collected Works (The University of Chicago Press, 2002), p. 284.
„Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.“
To Sir Edward Dyer, as quoted in Apophthegms (1625) by Francis Bacon
„Much suspected by me,
Nothing proved can be,
Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.“
Written with a diamond on her window at Woodstock (1555), published in Acts and Monuments (1563) by John Foxe.
To Robert Cecil when he said, in her final illness (March 1603), that she must go to bed.
„If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.“
Rhyming response written on a windowpane beneath Sir Walter Raleigh's writing: "Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall." As quoted in The History of the Worthies of England (1662) by Thomas Fuller
„Those who touch the sceptres of princes deserve no pity.“
Remarks to the French ambassador on Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron's rebellion against Henry IV of France (c. July 1602), quoted in J. E. Neale, Queen Elizabeth [1934] (1942), p. 364
