It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

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.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

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

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.