Top Napoleon Quotes

It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is t...

This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or 's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mi...

Napoleon Definition

(n.) A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or 'objectify' them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordina...

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

The educated man, habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries. In my the minds of my RAF hearers this perspective simply did...

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Who are your heroes?" asked Jo."Grandfather and Napoleon.

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produ...

I have often noticed that nationalism is at its strongest at the periphery. Hitler was Austrian, Bonaparte Corsican. In postwar Greece and Turkey the two most prominent ultra-right nationalists had bo...

Napoleon I., whose career had the quality of a duel against the wholeof Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of his army. The great military emperor was not a washbuckler, and had little res...