60 Quotes by Catherine the Great

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

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers.

Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw from this the fine maxim that one should not scold children too much, but should make them trustful, so that they will not conceal their stupidities from us?

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

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

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

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