I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

I will have here but one mistress and no master.

This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.

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

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.