Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

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

[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.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.