Queen 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

I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades. — Jonathan Turley

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

He went up to his room and sat down at the desk to write the hardest note he'd ever written in his life. He tore up four attempts before he was happy with what he'd written. It was short and to the point.

"You mean everything to me."

I — Michelle Frost

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

We grow old more through indolence, than through age. — 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

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

If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening. — Evagrius Ponticus

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

We can't control the world, but we can control our reactions to it. — Susan Jeffers

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

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

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up. — Jay Samit

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

I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks. — Sophia Amoruso

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