Enemy Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“no one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous…

— Napoléon Bonaparte

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am…

— Napoleon Bonaparte