I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

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.

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

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

Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.