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.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.

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

Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.