Author: Catherine the Great

Quotes

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

- Catherine the Great

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

- Catherine the Great

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

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

- Catherine the Great

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

- Catherine the Great

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

- Catherine the Great

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

- Catherine the Great

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

- Catherine the Great

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

- Catherine the Great

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

- Catherine the Great

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