Admirable Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The earl could have made Napoleon comfortable in a room sporting a guillotine.”

— Melissa Lynne Blue

“Had Napoleon been thoroughly unselfish, Grant suggested, he would have been the greatest man in history, such was his military genius. When a young…

— Ron Chernow

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“His sudden and utterly overwhelming panic was over almost before it began; but not quickly enough. In the midst of his brief yet total…

— Colleen McCullough

“I’ve had hemorrhoids more pleasant, my dear!” Minin’s head spun. Two gray and white Italian Greyhounds—Artemis and Eos—pranced into the lounge and happily came…

— Matt Fulton

“There is no glory in being a featherbed soldier, a man bedecked with gorgeous medals, but never beautified by a scar, or ennobled by…

— Charles Spurgeon

“...it turned out to be only our former chauffeur, Tsiganov, who had thought nothing of riding all the way from St. Petersburg, on buffers…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most radical among…

— J. Christopher Herold

“Glory of war, indeed! In war, all soldiers are lousy, at least when it is warm enough. The men who fought at Verdun, at…

— George Orwell

“The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English generals were…

— J. Christopher Herold

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

— Fanny Fern