I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.