Hang Irish harpers wherever found.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and 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 endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.