Quotations (21)

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Elizabeth: "Tonight, I think I die."
Lord Robert Dudley (to Elizabeth): "Remember who you are. Do not be afraid of them."
Queen Mary: "They say this cancer will make you queen, but they are wrong. Look there, that is your death warrant. All I need do is sign it." Elizabeth: "Mary, if you sign that paper you will be murdering your own sister."
Queen Mary: "When I look at you I see nothing of the king, only that whore, your mother. My father never did anything so well as to cut off her head." Elizabeth: "Your Majesty forgets he was also my father."
Elizabeth: "When I am queen, I promise... to act as my conscience dictates." Queen Mary: "Well do not think to be queen at all!"
Earl of Arundel: "War is a sin, but sometimes, a necessary one."
Bishop #1: "Madam, by this act... by this act, you force us to relinquish our allegiance to the Holy Father." Queen Elizabeth I: "How can I force you, Your Grace? I am 'a woman'. ...I have no desire to make windows into men's souls. I…
Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley: "Forgive me, Madam, but you are only a woman..." Queen Elizabeth I: "I may be a woman, Sir William, but if I choose I have the heart of a man! I am my father's daughter, and I am not afraid of anything."
Sir Francis Walsingham: "Your Grace is arrested. You must go with these men to the Tower." Duke of Norfolk: "I must do nothing by your orders. I am Norfolk!" Sir Francis Walsingham: "You were Norfolk. (shows him his own signature on the…
Duke of Norfolk: "So cut off my head… and make me a martyr. The people will always remember it." Sir Francis Walsingham: "No... they will forget."
Queen Elizabeth I: "Just… tell me why." Lord Robert Dudley: "Why? …Madam… is it not plain enough to you? It is no easy thing to be loved by The Queen. It would corrupt the soul of any man... Now for God's sake, kill me." Queen Elizabeth I:…
Sir Francis Walsingham: "There is so little beauty in this world, and so much suffering. Do you suppose that is what God had in mind? That is to say if there is a god at all. Perhaps there is nothing in this universe but ourselves. And our…
Queen Elizabeth I: "I have rid England of her enemies… What do I do now? ...Am I to be made of stone? Must I be touched by nothing?!?" Sir Francis Walsingham: "Aye, Madam. To reign supreme. All men need something greater than themselves to…
Queen Elizabeth I: "Observe, Lord Burghley. I am married... to England."
Queen Elizabeth I: How many Catholics are there in England, sir? Cabinet Minister #1: Immense numbers, Majesty. Cabinet Minister #2: Half the nation cling to the old superstitions. Queen Elizabeth I: What would you have me do? Hang half…
(after an expedition in the New World, Raleigh has founded a colony) Sir Walter Raleigh: "We have named it Virginia, after our Virgin Queen." Queen Elizabeth I: " "Virginia"? And when I am married, will you rename it to "Conjugia"?"
Sir Walter Raleigh: "How am I to win the Queen's favor?" Bess Throckmorton: "Why should I tell you that?" Sir Walter Raleigh: "I've little enough to offer, but whatever I have to give, ask and it's yours." Bess Throckmorton: "Say what you…
Sir Walter Raleigh (to Queen Elizabeth I): "Can you imagine what it is to cross an ocean... For weeks you see nothing but the horizon - perfect and empty... You live in the grip of fear... Fear of storms; fear of sickness on board; fear of…
Sir Walter Raleigh: "...At first, it's no more than a haze on the horizon. So you watch... you watch... then it's a smudge, a shadow in the far water. For a day, for another day, the stain slowly spreads along the horizon, taking form...…
Queen Elizabeth I: "Are you here to tell me I must murder a Queen?" Sir Walter Raleigh: "I would never presume to tell my Queen what to do. Only you know where your duty lies." Queen Elizabeth I: "Was it my father's duty to murder my…
Queen Elizabeth I: (to her army) "My loving people. We see the sails of the enemy approaching. We hear the Spanish guns over the water. Soon now, we will meet them face-to-face. I am resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live…