Persons
- Catherine of Lancaster (1372–1418), wife of Henry III of Castile
- Catherine of Valois (1401–1437), wife of Henry V of England
- Catherine of St Sava (1420s–1478), wife of Stephen Thomas of Bosnia
- Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536), first wife of Henry VIII of England
- Catherine of Habsburg (1507–1578), wife of John III of Portugal
- Catherine of Austria (1533–1572), third wife of Sigismund II Augustus of Poland
- Catherine Parr (1512–1548), sixth wife of Henry VIII of England
- Catherine de' Medici (1519–1589), wife of Henry II of France
- Catherine Howard (1525–1542), fifth wife of Henry VIII of England
- Catherine Jagellon (1526–1583), wife of John III of Sweden
- Ketevan of Kakheti (1565–1624), wife of David I of Kakheti and Saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church
- Catherine of Braganza (1638–1705), wife of Charles II of England
- Possible future title for Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, if her husband Prince William, Duke of Cambridge succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom
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“The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
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—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“In our Mechanics’ Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter’s planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,—rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)