Quotes by : Catherine the Great

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

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

Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.

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

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

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

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful....

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful....

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

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