My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.