I don't keep a dog and bark myself.

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

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

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.