“Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.’ Napoleon Bonaparte” — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place? — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea? — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind. — John Holland Rose 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
“Whenever anyone tells me that history's boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.” — Tony Perrottet Copy Share Image
I'm a little brother. I've always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight… — Chris Paul Copy Share Image
I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really… — Henry Bromell Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, with his usual assurance that whatever entered his head was right, wrote to Kutuzov the first words that occurred to him,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory. — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're… — Anonymous 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
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Had Napoleon been thoroughly unselfish, Grant suggested, he would have been the greatest man in history, such was his military genius. When… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“Napoleon was convinced his system of sound money could defeat the vaporous credit creation of the British. He felt that people would… — Kelly Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are a lot of hardcore 'Napoleon' fans, and they do the research and find photos of what I look like when… — Aaron Ruell 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
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that nationalism is at its strongest at the periphery. Hitler was Austrian, Bonaparte Corsican. In postwar Greece and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“The soldiers were not paid on time, and often looted and stole – sometimes from enemies, and sometimes friends – to survive.… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in the imagination": thus wrote General Bonaparte to General Moreau in 1800. His… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon —a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
“By common consent the eminent man of the time was Napoleon Bonaparte, the revolution queller, the burgher sovereign, the imperial democrat, the… — William Milligan Sloane Copy Share Image
