Elizabeth I

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. ”

The past cannot be cured. ”

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. ”

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them. ”

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. ”

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything. ”

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

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. ”

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. ”

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