Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.