I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

I thank God I am endued 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.

The past cannot be cured.

I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart