The past cannot be cured.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
God forgive you, but I never can.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
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.
All my possessions for a moment of time.
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.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
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.
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
The word must is not to be used to princes.
