Breakfast Quote by Henry Bromell

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

— John Holland Rose

“History is a set of lies agreed upon. – Napoléon Bonaparte”

— Pamela Crane

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

— Michel Houellebecq

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

— Josephine de Beauharnais

“Whenever anyone tells me that history's boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.”

— Tony Perrottet

“Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.”

— Tony Perrottet

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an…

— Félix J. Palma

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

— John Henrik Clarke

I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and…

— Sylvia Plath

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's…

— Boris Pasternak

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

— Christopher Pike