Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place of Christendom.

-Elizabeth I
  Speech to a parliamentary delegation, 5 Nov. Quoted in Christopher Haigh Elizabeth I (1988).

Brevity is the soul of lingerie, as the Petticoat said to the Chemise.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
  Caption forVogue. Quoted inJ Keats You Might asWell Live (1970).