Lady Jane Grey quotes

Lady Jane Grey was an English noblewoman who became Queen of England for just nine days. Her brief reign was the result of political intrigue following the death of King Edward VI. She is remembered as the "Nine Days' Queen" and a tragic figure in British history. Here are 8 of her quotes:

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

Lady Jane Grey

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

Lady Jane Grey

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

Lady Jane Grey

I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.

Lady Jane Grey

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.

Lady Jane Grey

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.

Lady Jane Grey

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

Lady Jane Grey