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.

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.

we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

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

There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.