Quotes By Catherine The Great

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

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.

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

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

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.