"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."

"I will have here one mistress and no master."

"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."

"In 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."

"My sex cannot diminish my prestige."

"Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can."

"Majesty makes the people bow."

"I am not afraid of anything and my sex has not diminished my prestige."

"Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better."

"There is only one Christ, Jesus, only one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles."

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."

"I have the heart of a man and not of a woman."

"I thank God I am endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom."

"Of myself I must say this: I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding Prince, nor yet a waster."