Famous quotes by Royaltys

Small: For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matt
Catherine the Great
"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, Royalty
Small: Your wit makes others witty
Catherine the Great
"Your wit makes others witty"
Catherine the Great, Royalty
Small: In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions
Catherine the Great
"In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions"
Catherine the Great, Royalty
Small: If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off
Catherine the Great
"If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off"
Catherine the Great, Royalty
Small: I shall be an autocrat, thats my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, thats his
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, Royalty
Small: I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will
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, Royalty
Small: All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!
Catherine the Great
"All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!"
Catherine the Great, Royalty
Small: A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache
Catherine the Great
"A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache"
Catherine the Great, Royalty
Small: There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself
"There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself"
Louis XIV, Royalty
Small: The Pyrenees are no more
"The Pyrenees are no more"
Louis XIV, Royalty
Small: Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns
"Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns"
Louis XIV, Royalty
Small: It is legal because I wish it
"It is legal because I wish it"
Louis XIV, Royalty
Small: I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women
"I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women"
Louis XIV, Royalty
Small: I am the state
"I am the state"
Louis XIV, Royalty
Small: First feelings are always the most natural
"First feelings are always the most natural"
Louis XIV, Royalty
Small: Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate
"Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate"
Louis XIV, Royalty
Small: Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful
"Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful"
Louis XIV, Royalty
Small: Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper
"Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper"
Louis XIV, Royalty
Small: When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out
Duke of Wellington
"When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
Small: When my journal appears, many statues must come down
Duke of Wellington
"When my journal appears, many statues must come down"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
Small: The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill
Duke of Wellington
"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
Small: The only thing I am afraid of is fear
Duke of Wellington
"The only thing I am afraid of is fear"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
Small: Publish and be damned
Duke of Wellington
"Publish and be damned"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
Small: Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won
Duke of Wellington
"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
Small: It is not the business of generals to shoot one another
Duke of Wellington
"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
Small: I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never exis
Duke of Wellington
"I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
Small: Habit is ten times nature
Duke of Wellington
"Habit is ten times nature"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
Small: Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils
Duke of Wellington
"Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
Small: Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious
Duke of Wellington
"Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
Small: Publish and be dammed
Duke of Wellington
"Publish and be dammed"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty