Christina, Queen of Sweden famous quotes

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

#Unhappy #Different #Way

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden

#Inspiration #Men

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

#Love #Life Is Too Short #Able

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

#Stupid #Men #Evil

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

#Shapes #Speak #Metaphor

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

#Use #Dignity #Conscious

I was born, have lived, and will die free.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden

#Freedom #Born #Dies

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

#Independence #World #Whole

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

#Men #Years #Age

Ignorance is not innocence.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden

#Ignorance #Innocence

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

#Stars #Order #Soul

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden

#Age #Sweden #Indolence

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden

#Reading #Instruction #Consolation

Every man is his own worst enemy
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden

#Men #Worst Enemy #Every Man

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

#Army #Weakness #Collections

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

#Royalty #Enough #Difficult

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

#Deception #Deceiving #Deceived

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden

#Royalty #Prisoner #Guarded

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

#Marriage #Pleasure #Pale

To some people everything is permitted.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden

#People #Charm

One can really love only once.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden