28 Quotes About Napoleon-bonaparte

When Bonaparte returned from Italy he called on Mr. Paine and invited him to dinner: in the course of his rapturous address to him he declared that a statue of gold ought to be erected to him in every city in the universe, assuring him that he always slept with his book 'Rights of Man' under his pillow and conjured him to honor him with his correspondence and advice.

Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.

No king establishes a kingdom without pouring blood of a nation.

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

He [Napoleon] had the defect of all parvenus -- that of having too great an opinion of the class into which he had risen.

If Napoleon can seek to ascend all the thrones of Europe, I suppose we may go dragging them out from under him

Наполеон привык глядеть войне прямо в глаза. Он никогда не занимался сложением, цифра за цифрой, прискорбных подробностей; цифры слагаемых были ему безразличны, лишь бы они составили нужную ему сумму – победу. Пусть неудачным оказалось начало, это его нисколько не тревожило, ибо он мнил себя господином и владыкой исхода битвы; он умел, не теряя веры в свои силы, выжидать и стоял перед судьбой, как равный перед равным. «Ты не посмеешь!» – казалось, говорил он року.

I want to go with you," I told him."To Egypt?" he whispered."Wherever you go.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever