Creative Quotations from Catherine the Great (1729-1796)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Catherine the Great
(1729-1796) born on May 02

Russian empress. As Empress, 1762-1796, she worked toward westernization, expansion, and made St. Petersburg a cultural rival with Paris.

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I am one of the people who love the why of things.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

I praise loudly, I blame softly

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Letter, 20 Jan 1776.
R:	In "Quotable Business," ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992.
A:	Correspondance with Baron F. M. Grimm, 1878.
N:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
K:	Letter, 23 Aug 1794.