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

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

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.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.