As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.

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

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

If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst

I would not open windows into men's souls.