Catherine The Great Quotes
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Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
— Catherine The Great
Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
— Catherine The Great
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.
— Catherine The Great
Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
— Catherine The Great
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
— Catherine The Great
My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.
— Catherine Crier
The only way to get truly great intuitive information is to show up and get out of your own way.
— Catherine Carrigan
A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.
— Catherine Hardwicke
It was not the lover she regretted,' wrote a Swiss imperial tutor, who understood their relationship. 'It was the friend.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.
— Catherine Lowell
In great ceremony they entered the prison.They were never to be seen again. — Catherine Fisher
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
— Catherine The Great
A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination ... or a headache.
— Catherine The Great
Self-interest usually brings injustice with it.
— Catherine The Great
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
— Catherine The Great
If Russians knew how to read they would write me off.
— Catherine The Great
Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.
— Katharine Anthony
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
— Catherine The Great
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— Simon Sebag Montefiore
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.
— Catherine The Great
You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.
— Catherine The Great
Your wit makes others witty.
— 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.
— Catherine The Great
The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.
— Catherine The Great
Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
— Catherine The Great
God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.
— Catherine The Great
I am one of the people who love the why of things.
— Catherine The Great
One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.
— Catherine The Great
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
— Catherine The Great
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
— Catherine The Great
There's something about standing on the top of a mountain you personally climbed at great sacrifice.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
— Catherine The Great
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
— Catherine The Great
I will live to make myself not feared.
— Catherine The Great
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
— Catherine The Great
Your wits make others witty.
— Catherine The Great
Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
I have no way to defend my borders but to extend them.
— Catherine The Great
I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.
— Catherine The Great
The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.
— Eleanor Herman
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ...
— Catherine The Great
You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.
— Catherine Keener
Don't worry about things you cannot alter
— Catherine The Great
I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
— Catherine The Great
All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!
— Catherine The Great
What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?
— Catherine The Great
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.
— Catherine The Great