"A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself."

Marguerite de Valois, Queen Consort of France and Navarre, House of Bourbon
Reigning from 1589-1599

"The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience."

Queen Isabella I of Spain,
Reigning from 1474-1504

"Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing -- turn out your toes as you walk -- and remember who you are!"

The Red Queen, from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Reigning in Wonderland now and forever...

"A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache."

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
Reigned from 1762 to 1796

“Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it."

Christina, Queen Regent of Sweden
Reigned 1632 to 1654

"The important thing is not what they think of me,
but what I think of them."

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, reigning from 1837 to 1901.