O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.

Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus receive my soul.

Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

What you desire is what you attract to yourself.

Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white?

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.

When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.