Christina Of Sweden Quotes

#1. Life is too short to be able to love as one should.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#2. You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#3. It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#4. There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#5. I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#6. Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#7. Catholics are pretty good at keeping Jesus nailed to that cross, rather than focusing more on that happy bit where he rose from the dead and freed us from sin and evil.

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#11. You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid.

Helen Simonson

#12. 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

#13. Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#14. One can really love only once.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#15. I Tried, But What I Had with You I Couldn't Have with Anyone Else.

Ahmed Ali Anjum

#16. Now don't warp your orbit, Mac.

Alfred Bester

#17. In Sweden, everyone is assumed to have similar resources, so it seems inappropriate to pay for someone else.

Christina Johansson Robinowitz

#18. Something amazing happens to everybody, every day. -- Annjea Morgan Llewor

Annjea Morgan Llewor

#19. We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#20. Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#21. To some people everything is permitted.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#22. Every man is his own worst enemy

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#23. The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

Andre Geim

#24. Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#25. It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#26. I was born, have lived, and will die free.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#27. I learn urgently
the architecture of loss
then find you again.

Warsan Shire

#28. My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

Ang Lee

#29. Grandmothers died. It was to be expected. You weren't even allowed to be that upset about it. Please don't let Frannie have died. Please don't let anyone have died. Nobody else in our family will

Liane Moriarty

#30. We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden