Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

[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.

Young heads take example of the ancient

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.