For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
– Catherine the Great
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
– Catherine the Great
I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
– Catherine the Great
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.
– Catherine the Great
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.