He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The earl could have made Napoleon comfortable in a room sporting a guillotine.” — Melissa Lynne Blue 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
“- what was the point of having an Emperor, if you couldn't cook up spicy rumors about him?” — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
“Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.” — Tony Perrottet 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
To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Mac had many admirable qualities, but not tact. He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Between Napoleon and His army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create a new army, but his army cannot create a new… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have. — Chris Paul Copy Share Image
“Mr. Carlisle became brisk. "Baby," he said, as Napoleon might have said to one of his Marshals when instructing him in his… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“But after taking command of the Army of Italy in 1796, Napoleon took organized theft to a new level. ... The French… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“Beethoven is said, however, to have torn out the title page in protest when Napoleon crowned himself emperor, and retitled it the… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
“By any reckoning, the twenty-day march from Antibes to Paris was one of the high points in his life. As Balzac later… — Frank McLynn Copy Share Image
“Napoleon once summarized his idea of strategic military planning: “You engage, and then you wait and see.” By making contact with the… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“In front marched Egypt. The Duke of Egypt at their head, on horseback, with his counts on foot, holding his bridle and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Napoleon I., whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of his… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Thucydides observed how advancing troops tended to edge out towards their right,{18} their unshielded side. They had an instinctive desire to feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Louis XIV was a very proud and self-confident man. He had such and such mistresses, and such and such ministers, and he… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon. — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me. — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
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