I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.