“The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm.… — Edward Heath Copy Share Image
When I was researching my book 'The 33 Strategies of War', I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“One by one, Napoleon's armies toppled the ancient monarchies of Europe. The French believed the great ideals of their Republic-liberty, equality, and… — David S. Kidder Copy Share Image
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“landmarks were “a little shabby.” Half the gilding was gone from the dome of Les Invalides, where Napoleon was buried. The same… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“In his most thrilling military victory to date, Napoleon had defeated an Ottoman force eighteen thousand men strong at Aboukir. It had… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the future. Despot but… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
The more money you spend, the more you need to make back, and the more pressure there is to appeal to everyone… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan.… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“When Bonaparte returned from Italy he called on Mr. Paine and invited him to dinner: in the course of his rapturous address… — Thomas Clio Rickman Copy Share Image
“What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Victor Hugo continues to be popular today not because of his multivolume works, which people may never have time or patience to… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
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