976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them.

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.

A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.