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

The past cannot be cured.

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

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

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

I don't keep a dog and bark myself.