"I have been ever averse to any one's dictating to me in things which concern myself."

"I have always been a lover of peace, but I am not afraid of war."

"Princes, you know, are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world."

"I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat, I were able to liv…"

"I will not be a painted image."