X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Former Emperor Of All Russia Inspirational Quotes (34)

Page 1 of 2
Filter & Style
Image
All around me is cowardice and deceit.
Nicholas II of Russia
Image
The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.
Catherine the Great
Image
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
Catherine the Great
Image
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
Catherine the Great
Image
I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.
Alexander III of Russia
Image
It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.
Peter the Great
Image
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great
Image
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
Image
To tempt, and to be tempted, are things very nearly allied, and, in spite of the finest maxims of morality impressed upon the mind, 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, and I have yet to learn how it is possible to prevent its being excited.
Catherine the Great
Image
Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'
Catherine the Great
Image
[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart but a weak man usually has not.
Catherine the Great
Image
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself
Peter the Great
Image
I do not rule Russia. 10,000 clerks do.
Nicholas II of Russia
Image
I am one of the people who love the why of things.
Catherine the Great
Image
I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
Catherine the Great
Image
Your wit makes others witty.
Catherine the Great
Image
The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.
Catherine the Great
Image
Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.
Catherine the Great
Image
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.
Catherine the Great
Image
Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
Catherine the Great
Image
Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.
Catherine the Great
Image
I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.
Nicholas II of Russia
Image
Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.
Catherine the Great
Image
bad news travels faster than good.
Catherine the Great
Previous
Next