Elizabeth I Quotes
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Marcus, Leah S., Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. University of Chicago Press, 2000, p. 132.
Her daughter did not then take the advice and when she did regret it, as her mother had warned, it was too late. She was executed in the French Revolution. It is by no means clear however that had she taken the advice and respected the French customs more, the result would have been any different. The revolutionary forces of France at the time were building and the Queen’s behavior gave the revolutionists a soft target, but there were many other troubles in France---most much more important than court behavior of the queen.
General Butler, when acting as Military Governor of New Orleans, requisitioned $80,000 from a local bank which he never accounted for. In a later legal action, he was reproached by a lawyer for the bank, asking what Butler's neighbors back in Massachusetts would think of his action. This was his response.
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
