The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

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

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

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.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.