Inspirational attitude Quote by Saul Bellow

“DANTON: Could you indeed? It's you idealists who make the best tyrants. ROBESPIERRE: It seems a bit late to be having this conversation. I've…

— Hilary Mantel

“Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the…

— J. Christopher Herold

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

“Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because of God.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Melissa Lynne Blue

“I think back to those days after the Bastille fell, the Mercure Nationale run from the back of the shop, that little Louise sticking…

— Hilary Mantel

“Like all men is distress,Gideon decided to do what Napoleon, what Shakespeare, what Alexander the Great would have done. There remained only the minor…

— Robert Louis Stevenson Lloyd Osbourne

“ON THE SEACOAST road to Rye, in the midst of a summer’s hazy day, stood Sir Edward Danton. His uncovered head of silver tinged…

— Claudy Conn

“Arthur Jelliby was a very nice young man, which was perhaps the reason why he had never made much of a politician.”

— Stefan Bachmann

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

“To a Bonaparte it represents what Jacob Astor meant when he said, “The first hundred thousand dollars are the most difficult.” It is the…

— William Bolitho

“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