Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth i and/or elizabeth:
“My lord, the crown which I have borne so long has given enough of vanity in my time. I beseech you not to augment it in this hour when I am so near my death.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.”
—Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915)