Mary Queen Quotes

If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

In my end is my beginning

I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.

No one provokes me with impunity.

Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

After all, why things ended up in a way that you never imagine.

The soft strings of the lute rippled with memories, and the maid's lilting voice made Mary sigh as she closed her eyes. She fell asleep filled with sadness, but without regret.

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.