Elizabeth I Quotes

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

The men that call for Reformation, may pretend cause or colour of cause both in matters of doctrine & fact, why they may hate the Bishops, which in no sorte may bee applyed to hir Majestie.

Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.

As a kid, picturing people who grew up in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I walking around in hose and latched shoes in the woods behind my house was an interesting atmospheric thing for me.

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

She certainly is a great queen, and were she only a Catholic she would be our dearly beloved. Just look how well she governs; she is only a woman, only mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.

I am fascinated by Tudor times.

Growing up in America, even in the rougher parts of Elizabeth, I had two nice playgrounds to choose from as a child.

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.

Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative.

The legislation of the age about " vagabonds" is written in blood. The only remedy suggested was to punish the vagrant by cruel tortures—by whipping and branding. Even death was resorted to after a second or third offence; and though these penalties proved very ineffectual, the system was not abandoned till the law of 43 Elizabeth recognized that punishment had failed as a remedy

We the most sacred Moslem Emperor … Murad III, in token of our Imperial friendship … with Elizabeth, Queen of England, does signify and declare that the people and subjects of the same Queen, may safely and securely come to our princely dominions, with their goods and merchandise, and ladings and other commodities by sea, in great and small vessels, and by land with their carriages and cattle, and that no man shall hurt them, but they may buy and sell without hindrance …

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama.

There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation.

I start 'The Code Book' with the story of Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot, which was foiled when Mary's enciphered messages fell into the hands of Elizabeth I's codebreakers.

The Tudors, I don't even know if I had a family back then.

There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.