976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

History is the invention of historians.

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

Leaders deal in hope.

One bad general is worth two good ones.