It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart