Elizabeth I

2005 (TV)

Queen Elizabeth I: If you can't read my silence, you're nothing.

Queen Elizabeth I: What in God's name do we have in common with the Dutch? Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: We have our religion, ma'am! Queen Elizabeth I: The Dutch have no religion, they have cheese.

Queen Elizabeth I: I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King - and of a King of England, too.

Queen Elizabeth I: A man can be a good Catholic and a good Englishman. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Not at the same time, Ma'am.

William Cecil, Lord Burghley: The bloody and deceitful man shall not live out half his days.

(last lines) Queen Elizabeth I: Get me a priest, girl. I'm minded to die.

(talking about Sir Francis Bacon) Queen Elizabeth I: Bacon, people who compliment me on my breasts, even in Latin, run the risk of being thought impertinent. (to Essex) We understand he's fond of the company of pretty youths. No wonder he's the Member for *Middlesex*!

Queen Elizabeth I: I lack the assurance of youth. I question everything.

Sir Francis Walsingham: I think the French make better acquaintances than friends.

(Elizabeth is visiting Mary Stuart secretly) Mary Queen of Scots: You were not announced. Queen Elizabeth I: I am not here.

Queen Elizabeth I: Princes never cheat at cards. They just have the rules changed.

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