Napoleon Quotes
153 quotes by 112 authors
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Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
— Yogi Berra
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Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on.…
— Bob Dylan
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It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were…
— Pat Robertson
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The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people…
— William Cobbett
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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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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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It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.
— Jon Heder
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I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi…
— Shahrukh Khan
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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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If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.â€Â You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and…
— Napoleon Hill
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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her…
— Anne Rice
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Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death.…
— Robert Greene
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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it,…
— Clement Freud
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Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.
— Bruno Walter
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Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: “Do not march on Moscowâ€. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was…
— Benjamin Harvey Hill
Who Wrote These Napoleon Quotes
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