I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

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

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.