Elizabeth I

“God forgive you, but I never can.”

“Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.”

“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”

“I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.”

“There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.”

“My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.”

“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”

“Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.”