Top 262 Napoleon Quotes & Sayings

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

This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.

My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon

It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made himself an emperor. In fact, a lot of revolutionary leaders do that, and you think, "Well, that's spoiling your argument. What are you doing?" But on the other hand, the people themselves are enjoying trying out all these different ways to be. I hope that, like the Japanese, the Chinese hang on to their own traditions as well as try out Western ones. I hate it when people just lose so much confidence in who they are that they abandon their own culture.

Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.

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

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea?

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.

People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.

From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding eye. Like the sun in the sky, Comrade Napoleon! Thou are the giver of All thy creatures love, Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon; Every beast great or small, Sleeps at peace in his stall, Thou watchest over all, Comrade Napoleon! Had I a sucking-pig, Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or a a rolling-pin He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee, Yes, his first squeak should be Comrade Napoleon!

In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,' said Napoleon, 'but I propose and dispose too.' How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia; he proposed to make all Europe his. He proposed to destroy that power, and how did he come back again? How had he disposed it? He came back solitary and alone, his mighty army perished and wasted, having well-nigh eaten and devoured one another through hunger. Man proposes and God disposes.

Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.

Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest We want sanitary food, planetary conquest

There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.

Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.

You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.

I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.

When I was researching my book 'The 33 Strategies of War', I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning.

The new French theme park based on Napoleon is named Napoleon's Bivouac, and will honor Napoleon with rides, battle reenactments, and the brutal March on Moscow ride. That's a walk-in freezer you stand in for 18 months while you try to eat a dead horse.

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death. In social settings he was awkward and timid, but he overcame this and practice boldness in every part of his life because he saw its tremendous power, how it could literally enlarge a man(even one who, like Napoleon, was in fact conspicuously small).

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

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.

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

Napoleon once said that justice is the incarnation of God on Earth. I'm telling you: the reunification of Crimea and Russia is just.

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.

It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, "Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days" or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, "thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!".

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.

Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon!

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

The idea of 'Napoleon Dynamite' as an animated series made perfect sense to me.

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

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.

Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.

Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.

Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.

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

Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East.

Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!

Napoleon is always right.

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