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I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. -- Duke of Wellington
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio. -- Arturo Toscanini
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even Napoleon had his Watergate. -- Yogi Berra
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. -- Aldous Huxley
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. -- Michel Houellebecq
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
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
I'm a little brother. I've always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have. -- Chris Paul
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
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
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
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
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor. -- Loretta Napoleoni
I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally. -- Curtis Jackson
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
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
Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals. -- Tina Brown
You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing. -- Al Madrigal
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
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.
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again. -- Lady Gregory
Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end. -- John Ortberg
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
Napoleon is always right. -- George Orwell
Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives. -- Bruno Walter
Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack. -- Mikhail Tukhachevsky
My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon. -- Raymond Roussel
Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing. -- Kevin Brownlow
Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody. -- J. Christopher Herold
My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon -- Raymond Roussel
Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon. -- David Lloyd
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies. -- Steven Pinker
[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself. -- Karl Marx
Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God. -- Ian Fleming
Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller. -- Silvio Berlusconi
The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind. -- John Holland Rose
Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest We want sanitary food, planetary conquest -- U-God
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain. -- Adolf Hitler
The idea of 'Napoleon Dynamite' as an animated series made perfect sense to me. -- Mike Scully
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me. -- Duke of Wellington
Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me. -- Graham Taylor
Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba. -- Terry Pratchett
Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors. -- Donald Rumsfeld
One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army. -- George Orwell
The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life. -- Adolf Hitler
Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea? -- Greg Giraldo
Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own. -- David McCullough
[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun. -- Josephine de Beauharnais
I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay. -- Chris Martin
I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates. -- Jon Heder
But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus. -- Orson Scott Card
Napoleon Hill said "The Imagination is the most powerful most miraculous inconceivably powerful force that the world's ever known -- Bob Proctor
The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him. -- Mao Zedong
Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable. -- Leslie Carroll
People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have. -- Chris Paul
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place? -- Stendhal
Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte. -- Max Gallo
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man. -- Madame de Stael
You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia. -- Cassandra Clare
Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers. -- Tom Stoppard
Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me. -- David Suchet
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
Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow. -- Dick Beddoes
Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same. -- P. G. Wodehouse
[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in. -- Charles James Fox
My first restoration was on Napoleon, trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory. -- Kevin Brownlow
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations. -- Stendhal
General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Napoleon once said that justice is the incarnation of God on Earth. I'm telling you: the reunification of Crimea and Russia is just. -- Vladimir Putin
If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning. -- Jose Andres Puerta
Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith! -- Artemas Ward
[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long. -- Josephine de Beauharnais
To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. -- Pierre-Simon Laplace
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
How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors? -- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill. -- Stephen Kinzer
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
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital. -- David Frum
Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening. -- James A. Garfield
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh? -- P. G. Wodehouse
Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?" -- P. G. Wodehouse
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
When you do a film as unique and original as 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it's hard then try to repeat what audiences loved the first time. -- Mike Scully
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. -- Victor Hugo
The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany -- George Will
What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ? -- Georges Clemenceau
The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them. -- Jim Piddock
Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived? -- Stefan Zweig
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
I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa. -- Shah Rukh Khan
What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe. -- Andrew Roberts
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
To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carriÃ¨re ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them. -- John Keats
I really like 'Passion of the Christ.' I like that movie. I also like 'We Were Soldiers,' and 'Braveheart.' And 'Napoleon Dynamite' - that movie was funny. -- Luke Benward
I call my thumb Napoleon, because I rarely ever lose a thumb war. Also because my thumb's so small, and I wear a tiny funny hat and cape on it. -- Jarod Kintz
I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We're not a pushover. -- Kevin Hart
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good. -- Mark Twain
He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell. -- Hugh Howey
History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? -- Henry Bromell
America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington. -- Bertrand Russell
Hitler's historical hero had always been Frederick the Great. [Later], under Goebbels' prompting ... Napoleon emerged ... as his model. .... Frederick the Great was a man who knew when to stop [and] Napoleon did not. -- Ernst Hanfstaengl
Marie-ThÃ©rÃ¨se played a key role in shaping European politics.In addition, as the Duchesse d'AngoulÃªme, her face-off with Napoleon's soldiers was certainly a testament to three generations of strong women. -- Susan Nagel
You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a historian. You believe these things because they're facts, proved by evidence. -- Richard Dawkins
Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay. -- Grant Wood
The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary. -- William Cobbett
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic. -- Paolo Sorrentino
Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon. -- Anthony Standen

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