Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

I don't keep a dog and bark myself.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

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.

[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.

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.