Quotes About Tsar Nicholas Ii

#1. Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed.

Saul David

#2. There was a happy irony in the first cousin of the autocratic Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II (with whom George bore a striking resemblance) furthering British democracy.

Paul Ham

#3. The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

Wilhelm II

#4. The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.

Bill Bryson

#5. Comstock, but I left a wrong impression with you. I don't want

Gene Stratton-Porter

#6. I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

Sarah Miller

#7. Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise.

Sarah Miller

#8. If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#9. My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late
our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.

Sarah Miller

#10. Starlight is best felt at noon...

Will Advise

#11. I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

Nicholas II

#13. Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

Sophocles

#14. Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

Cathy Freeman

#15. One hand can plant a garden;
a thousand hands can plant a forest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. I did nine episodes of 'John Doe.' I died of boredom.

William Forsythe

#17. It is neither a great praise nor a great blame when people say a tendency is in or out of fashion. If a tendency is as it should be at one time, it is always as it should be.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#18. In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

Marya Mannes

#19. Clothing is ultimately the suit of armor in which we battle the world.

Sophia Amoruso