Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Christina, Queen of Sweden

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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Christina, Queen of Sweden

Christina, a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death at the Battle of Lützen in 1632, but began ruling the Swedish Empire when she reached the age of eighteen in 1644.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways. — © Christina, Queen of Sweden
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
Life is too short to be able to love as one should.
Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.
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.
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
Every man is his own worst enemy
Ignorance is not innocence.
I was born, have lived, and will die free.
It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.
There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
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.
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
To some people everything is permitted.
You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.
I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women
There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes. — © Christina, Queen of Sweden
There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.
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.
One can really love only once.
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