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.

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

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

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

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.

Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it.