Age Quote by John Buchan

“Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand…

— Otto Weininger

“The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled…

— Robert W. Chambers

“How horrified he would have been if, seven years ago, when he had just come from abroad, someone had told him that there was…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering of cannons…

— Paul Valéry

“I like that quote, but Napoleon was a fool, drunk on his own perceived invincibility. He could have ruled the world had he but…

— Tom Wood

“My kingdom has fallen because I had built it with power,but the kingdom of Jesus Christ will last forever because it was built on…

— Napoléon Bonaparte

“Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided…

— Victor Hugo

“some man of power must have existed, with gifts that seemed miraculous to his own times.”

— Mary Stewart

“The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

“Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the future. Despot but dictator; a…

— Victor Hugo

An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of…

— Randall Jarrell

“He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole world. If…

— Patrick Süskind