Best 20 quotes of Christina on MyQuotes

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.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

Every man is his own worst enemy

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.

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

Ignorance is not innocence.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

To some people everything is permitted.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

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

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

I love the storm and fear the calm.

I say this explicitly, that it is impossible for me to marry. That is the way it is for me. My temper is a mortal enemy to this horrible yoke, which I would not accept, even if I thus would become the ruler of the world.

Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married women slaves.