Christina Of Sweden Quotes & Sayings

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

Life is too short to be able to love as one should. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

In Sweden, everyone is assumed to have similar resources, so it seems inappropriate to pay for someone else. — Christina Johansson Robinowitz

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

Every man is his own worst enemy — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

We grow old more through indolence, than through age. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

One can really love only once. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

To some people everything is permitted. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

I was born, have lived, and will die free. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden