Carolly-erickson Quote by Carolly Erickson

“Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the…

— J. Christopher Herold

“According to what he tells us himself, Mrs. Fryxell used to say of Napoleon: 'I wish he could be punished for all his slaughter…

— Vilhelm Moberg

“Or perhaps they think I’m still a child. The fools. Alexander was a child when he ruined his first nation.”

— Pierce Brown

“He couldn’t imagine what had made his father so angry or the townspeople so mean, but he knew with a child’s sudden, clear conviction…

— Lynn Flewelling

“Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because of God.”

— Victor Hugo

“Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband…

— William Shakespeare

“One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.”

— Pearl S. Buck

“I am not like other men, and the ordinary laws of morality and rules of propriety do not apply to me,” Napoleon vaunted.”

— Kate Williams

“Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child”

— Miguel Syjuco

“That anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad.”

— J. Sterling

“The horror came as I realized that, for what he had done, the child in me was right to blame him entirely, and the…

— Rebecca Coleman

“Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless and I had raised him hard because a man must be hard. The world is…

— Bernard Cornwell