Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

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.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.

[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.