Bonaparte Quotes

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When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

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.

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

Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

No king establishes a kingdom without pouring blood of a nation.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

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