Christina, Queen of Sweden Quotes

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

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women

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.

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

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

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

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

Ignorance is not innocence.

Every man is his own worst enemy

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

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

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

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.

To some people everything is permitted.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

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

One can really love only once.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.