Napoleon Quotes

"Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El verdadero carácter siempre aparece en las grandes circunstancias" (Napoleón Bonaparte)"

Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.

Las batallas contra las mujeres son las únicas que se ganan huyendo

Do you know, Fontanes, what astonishes me most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit

Revolutions are ideal times for soldiers with a lot of wit — and the courage to act.

The moral is to the physical as three is to one

I have closed the gaping abyss of anarchy, and I have unscrambled chaos, I have cleansed the Revolution, ennobled the common people, and restored the authority of kings. I have stirred all men to competition, I have rewarded merit wherever I found it, I have pushed back the boundaries of greatness.

Le hasard est le seul roi légitime dans l'univers.

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children."

Napoleon Bonaparte ( Not me...

At twenty-two many things are allowed which are no longer permitted past thirty

Show me a family of readers, and I’ll show you the people who move the world.

Imagination rules the world.

We are waging war as generous enemies, and we wish only to crush the tyrants who enslave you.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

When I lost my way, I was accustomed to throw the reins on his neck, and he always discovered places where I, with all my observation and boasted superior knowledge, could not.
-Napoléon Bonaparte about his horse Marengo