Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be