Done With Bonaparte Quotes & Sayings

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality. — Milan Kundera

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

We prayed these wars would end all wars
In war we know is no romance.
(Done With Bonaparte) — Mark Knopfler

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power. — Napoleon Bonaparte

During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church? The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you. — Ross Douthat

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!! — Napoleon Bonaparte

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth! — Napoleon Bonaparte

Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense. — J. Christopher Herold

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights! — Napoleon Bonaparte

My generals are a parcel of post inspectors. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose, ... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man
provided his education has been suitable
with a long nose. — Napoleon Bonaparte

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England — Lauren Willig

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I shall be an Attila to Venice. — Napoleon Bonaparte

They are the carrion birds of humanity ... [speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens ... The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people. — Napoleon Bonaparte

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. — Napoleon Bonaparte

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. — Napoleon Bonaparte

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy. — Napoleon Bonaparte

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army. — Napoleon Bonaparte

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural. — Napoleon Bonaparte

We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations. — Thomas Jefferson

A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war. — Napoleon Bonaparte

When people cease to complain, they cease to think. — Napoleon Bonaparte

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable. — Napoleon Bonaparte