Napoleon Quotes

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Sense, Reading

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Bill Cosby

Time, Good, Wife

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Yogi Berra

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley

Dog, Dogs, Popularity

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali

Age, Wanted, Ambition

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Victor Hugo

Great, Liberty, Century

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
Jon Bon Jovi

Women, Fighting, Worth

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.
James Buchan

Since, Took, Muslim

When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite''s style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.
Jason Reitman

Old, Stuff, Style

I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Fun, Trying, Friends

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
Chris Martin

Good, Coldplay, Dynamite

I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.
Wesley Snipes

Powerful, May, Short

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
Alexander Herzen

Goal, Possible, Generation

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
Matthew Simpson

Education, Successful, Both

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
Matthew Simpson

Men, True, Country

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
Lajos Kossuth

Freedom, Become, Ambition

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.
Robert Vaughn

Play, Role, Solo

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
Bruce Sterling

Peace, War, Accept

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor

History, Mistakes, Past

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
Edwidge Danticat

Money, Revolution, America

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Duke of Wellington

Men, Made, Used

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
Douglas Hurd

War, Today, Rights

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.
Jon Heder

Dressed, Slap, Microsoft

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.
Ferdinand Lassalle

War, Last, Against

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.
Michael Baden

Before, After, Whether

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.
Tom Conti

Friends, Find, Said

To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.
Arturo Toscanini

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan

Able, Madness, Army

Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem. Moscow will be the sponge that will suck him dry.
Mikhail Kutuzov

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