Napoleon Quotes · Page 2

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

— Aldous Huxley

“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”

— Napoleon

Hey, is that a new kid or something? -Napoleon Dynamite

— Napoleon Dynamite

“Napoleon said, ‘When your enemy is doing something stupid, don’t interfere.”

— Kyle Mills

“Whenever anyone tells me that history's boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.”

— Tony Perrottet

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

— Elie Ducommun

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.

— Jon Heder

I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of…

— Aaron Ruell

I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is…

— Laura Wasser

“It was napoleon who once observed how easy it is to win men over through flattery simply by bequeathing a title to…

— Texe Marrs

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

— Michel Houellebecq

I really like 'Passion of the Christ.' I like that movie. I also like 'We Were Soldiers,' and 'Braveheart.' And 'Napoleon Dynamite'…

— Luke Benward

I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.

— Michael Dirda

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible…

— William Cobbett

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

— Charles James Fox

“Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the future. Despot but…

— Victor Hugo

“OF course they did,' she snapped back. 'According to them, you single-handedly won a dozen battles, restored the Spanish throne, and infiltrated…

— Eloisa James

“Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful…

— J. Christopher Herold

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution,…

— Edwidge Danticat

It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector.…

— Kevin Brownlow

The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out…

— J. Christopher Herold

You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny…

— Al Madrigal

“Salvador Dalí’s aberrations are partly explicable. Perhaps they are a way of assuring himself that he is not commonplace. The two qualities…

— George Orwell

Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the…

— John Ralston Saul

“Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of…

— Tom Reiss

“we also see two things that are very salient for Napoleon –   1. Whenever he saw an opportunity, he immediately felt…

— Sebastian Marshall

“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In his most thrilling military victory to date, Napoleon had defeated an Ottoman force eighteen thousand men strong at Aboukir. It had…

— Kelsey Brickl

“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days…

— Kelsey Brickl

“landmarks were “a little shabby.” Half the gilding was gone from the dome of Les Invalides, where Napoleon was buried. The same…

— David McCullough

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

— Steven Pinker

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

— David McCullough

Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

— Mikhail Tukhachevsky

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

— Karl Marx

“Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.”

— Anonymous

Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.

— Silvio Berlusconi

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die. —Napoleon Bonaparte”

— Jack Cheevers

'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

— Kevin Brownlow