I try to paint from life, but I had such a miserable…

“Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.’ Napoleon Bonaparte”

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England”

— Lauren Willig

“The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

— Henry David Thoreau

“By common consent the eminent man of the time was Napoleon Bonaparte, the revolution queller, the burgher sovereign, the imperial democrat, the supreme captain,…

— William Milligan Sloane

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency…

— Henry David Thoreau

Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want…

— Robert Solow

Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of…

— Peter Padfield

“but Bonaparte when he worked went step by step toward his goal. He was free, he had nothing but his aim to consider, and…

— Anonymous

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte…

— Robert A. Heinlein

It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its full retinue…

— John Buchan

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

— Charles de Gaulle

“Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you?”

— Carolly Erickson

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

— Max Gallo

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of…

— Victor Hugo