Napoleon Quote by Paul Valéry

“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

“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

“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

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

— Tony Perrottet

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

“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

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

It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its full retinue…

— John Buchan

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

— Pamela Crane

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had…

— Richard Russo

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

— Tony Perrottet

“…It was embarrassing now to recall with what little regret he had let slip his pleasures and preoccupations, the imminence of loss revealing them…

— P.D. James