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.

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

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.

Young heads take example of the ancient

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.