Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place? — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Never interrupt your enemy when she’s making a mistake.’ ‘Napoleon?” — Sarah Hilary Copy Share Image
Returning to one's city is like Napoleon going back to France, full of greatness and future tales. — Madeline Von Bouchard Copy Share Image
“Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody.” — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun. — Josephine de Beauharnais Copy Share Image
Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me. — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon. — David Lloyd 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
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
Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me. — David Suchet Copy Share Image
“Napoleon bullied and deceived Jefferson and his successor James Madison because America was impotent. Without fleets and armies, their arguments about international… — Andrew Lambert Copy Share Image
I have read loads of books on Napoleon. For him to come from nothing and then lead his country, that fascinated me.… — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their… — Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham 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
I decided to restore 'Napoleon' after a widescreen festival at the Odeon Leicester Square in 1968. It was run by Richard Arnell… — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures… — Saul David 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
Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
The two greatest characters in the 19th century are Napoleon and Helen Keller. Napoleon tried to conquer the world by physical force… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family.… — 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
“Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
“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
“Be fair, my friends! To be the empire of such an emperor, what a splendid destiny for a nation, when that nation… — Victor Hugo 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
“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
It was the same clear brain and firm hand which brought Napoleon III into Italy in 1859. — Arthur J Whyte Copy Share Image
“Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.” — Tony Perrottet 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
“The earl could have made Napoleon comfortable in a room sporting a guillotine.” — Melissa Lynne Blue Copy Share Image
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
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