Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

[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.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.