Catherine The Great Quotes

“I’m not— Lady Macbeth Lucrezia Borgia Catherine the Great. I am —a woman doing what she has to do. I am —the…

— Don Winslow

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

— Katharine Anthony

Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of…

— Bill Gates

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

— Clement Attlee

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of…

— Robin McLeavy

Russia's first major intervention began in 1768, when Catherine the Great went to war with the Ottomans, and Count Alexei Orlov, the…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How…

— Margaret MacMillan

Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear…

— Cassandra Clare

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and…

— Tina Fey

Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she…

— Paul Johnson

I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character,…

— Jessie Buckley

I wrote a one-act play - I can't remember the name of it, but it was really about the way women are…

— Tina Fey

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“STALIN He learned to write in the language of Georgia, his homeland, but in the seminary the monks made him speak Russian.…

— Eduardo Galeano

“Your letter has drawn me from the solitude in which I had shut myself up for nearly nine months, and from which…

— Catherine the Great