65 Quotes by Andrew Roberts

I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon

His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.

No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired.

We were always taught as historians, or at least I was at university, never to use the word 'inevitable', because nothing is inevitable in history. And that's true, except for German counterattack.

For a man who was to exhibit such acute political sharpness later in his career, Napoleon completely misread the revolution's opening stages. 'I repeat what I have said to you,' he wrote to Joseph on July 22, a week after the fall of the Bastille, 'calm will return. In a month, there will no longer be a question of anything. So, if you send me 300 livres [7,500 francs] I will go to Paris to terminate our business.

We absolutely have to give the Debt Management Office the power to deal with the huge change in demand. There will be a substantial change in policy.

She genuinely was saintly. She hadn't got a vicious bone in her body. And if we had privacy law here, if we had a press law in this country like they had in France, she could be alive today.