Bonaparte Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power…
— Ross Douthat
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
— Charles de Gaulle
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The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.
— Naomi Novik
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The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.
— David Frum
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France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties…
— Thomas Jefferson
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[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is…
— Charles Fort
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This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but…
— Milan Kundera
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Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years…
— Loretta Napoleoni
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the…
— Robert A Heinlein
Who Wrote These Bonaparte Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Bonaparte Quotes as follows: