 The word must is not to be used to princes. |
| There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God. |
| Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. |
| If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. |
| 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. |
| A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. |
| Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. |
| The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. |
| 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. |
| Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. |
| Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word. |
| Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst. |
| I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children. |
| If we still advise we shall never do. |
| The past cannot be cured. |
| 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 have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything. |
| God forgive you, but I never can. |
| He who placed me in this seat will keep me here. |
| Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. |
