[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The earl could have made Napoleon comfortable in a room sporting a guillotine.” — Melissa Lynne Blue Copy Share Image
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their… — Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham Copy Share Image
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“There is one thing alone to do in this world and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and… — Kate Williams Copy Share Image
No one's ever done what AC/DC did out of anywhere, really. Conquered the world, mate, that was the idea from the start.… — Phil Rudd Copy Share Image
I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“A provisional government was appointed on April 1 (it consisted mainly of Talleyrand's whist partners), and the following day the Senate, on… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“to cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures… — Saul David Copy Share Image
Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
The two greatest characters in the 19th century are Napoleon and Helen Keller. Napoleon tried to conquer the world by physical force… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family.… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“landmarks were “a little shabby.” Half the gilding was gone from the dome of Les Invalides, where Napoleon was buried. The same… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“In his most thrilling military victory to date, Napoleon had defeated an Ottoman force eighteen thousand men strong at Aboukir. It had… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“They are subjected to all manner of taxes: the tithe, the hearth tax and the capitation tax. When all those are paid,… — Simon Scarrow Copy Share Image
Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No!… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me. — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon. — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
It was the same clear brain and firm hand which brought Napoleon III into Italy in 1859. — Arthur J Whyte Copy Share Image
“Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.” — Tony Perrottet Copy Share Image
“- what was the point of having an Emperor, if you couldn't cook up spicy rumors about him?” — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio. — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image