Best Napoleon Sayings
153 Napoleon quotes by 106 unique authors
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Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.
— Silvio Berlusconi
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I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
— Tom Stoppard
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Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.
— Graham Taylor
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The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath,…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense;…
— Arthur Bryant
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The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a…
— Charles Lindbergh
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I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like…
— Bill Cosby
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily…
— Salvador Dali
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I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and…
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us…
— Victor Hugo
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
— Aldous Huxley
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Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora.…
— Jon Bon Jovi
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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
— Chris Martin
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Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon,…
— John Ortberg
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How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with…
— Mark Twain
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Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow,…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions…
— George Orwell
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Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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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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Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger…
— Ian Fleming
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One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized then, with an…
— Roland Barthes
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Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar,…
— Bertrand Russell
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