“It requires more courage to suffer than to die. —Napoleon Bonaparte” — Jack Cheevers Copy Share Image
Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is surely no coincidence that Napoleon's two greatest heroes were Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. In certain respects, he would… — Saul David 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
“Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.’ Napoleon Bonaparte” — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up by talking about the Winter Sports at Moscow.” — P.G. Wodehouse 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
“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
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
The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon… — Stephen Kinzer 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 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
It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“to cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in… — Duke of Wellington 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
“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’s intuition was a mix of homeostatic pressure – strong urges felt whenever he saw opportunity or felt threatened – followed by… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Kléber—who shared Dumas’s opinion of Napoleon—memorably summed up his command by stating that Bonaparte was “the General who costs 10,000 men a… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“we also see two things that are very salient for Napoleon – 1. Whenever he saw an opportunity, he immediately felt… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates. — Jon Heder Copy Share Image
Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization! — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
“Napoleon said, ‘When your enemy is doing something stupid, don’t interfere.” — Kyle Mills Copy Share Image
“Whenever anyone tells me that history's boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.” — Tony Perrottet Copy Share Image
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image