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.
I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.
My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.