Author Topic: ~ Catherine the Great Quotes ~  (Read 1190 times)

Offline MysteRy

~ Catherine the Great Quotes ~
« on: February 12, 2014, 01:30:50 PM »
Catherine the Great Quotes


Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796.
Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great (German: Katharina die Große), was born in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany on 2 May 1729 as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg. She reigned as Empress of Russia from 9 July 1762 after the assassination of her husband, Peter III, just after the end of the Seven Years' War until her death on 17 November 1796.

Here are some famous quotes by Catherine the Great.




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

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Catherine the Great Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2014, 01:31:28 PM »
First health then wealth then pleasure and do not owe anything to anybody.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Catherine the Great Quotes ~
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2014, 01:32:09 PM »
A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Catherine the Great Quotes ~
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2014, 01:32:37 PM »
I shall be an autocrat that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.