Napoleon Quotes

The only victory over love is flight.

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.

Men in general are but great great children.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

France always has plenty men of talent but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

For the maintenance of peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

Alexander Caesar Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love and to this very day millions would die for Him.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

Forethought we may have undoubtedly but not foresight.

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness the hideous ingratitude of man.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Soldiers forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.