There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.

I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.

[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]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.

God forgive you, but I never can.

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