Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

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.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed 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.

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

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

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