Christina of Sweden Quotes

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

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

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

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

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

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.

Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.

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.