The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
[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.
I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a King and of a King of England too.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England’s hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
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.
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.