Napoleon Quotes

My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

In Love, Victory goes to the man who runs away

My maxim was, la carrière est ouverte aux talents, without distinction of birth or fortune.

The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.

I am the instrument of providence, she will use me as long as I accomplish her designs, then she will break me like a glass.

„Es gibt kein gutmütigeres, aber auch kein leichtgläubigeres Volk als das deutsche. Keine Lüge kann grob genug ersonnen werden, die Deutschen glauben sie. Um eine Parole, die man ihnen gab, verfolgen sie ihre Landsleute mit größerer Erbitterung als ihre wirklichen Feinde.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.