History Quote by Various

“set of ABBOTT'S NAPOLEON histories. They were all presentation copies from the author, with autograph inscriptions. The regret expressed”

— Various

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

— Pamela Crane

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

— Joachim du Bellay

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de Rubempré… It haunts me in my moments of pleasure. I…

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“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

“All was not lost when the Library at Alexandria was burned”

— Mark Wallace Maguire

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

— John Holland Rose

“If the empire were to collapse, I should personally feel extremely sad. I absolutely do not believe that the personal rule of Napoleon III…

— Franz Liszt

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify…

— Dan Brown