The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
Young heads take example of the ancient
Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.