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."

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."