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

He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.

[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 have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.