Josephine Bonaparte Quotes

Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you? ~ Carolly Erickson

It's a wonder, given your prowess with these delicious women, that there aren't dozens of little Bonapartes running around. Tell me, how do you account for that? ~ Carolly Erickson

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The superior man is never in anyone's way. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Wallen, like Masters and Johnson, thinks it's possible that a majority of the so-called vaginal orgasms being had during intercourse are in reality clitoral orgasms. But unlike Masters and Johnson, he doesn't suggest that most women are having them easily. He believes, like Bonaparte, that the women having them - the paraclitoridiennes of the world - are an anatomically distinct group whose sexual response is different from that of the majority of women. And that maybe these women are where the whole notion of the vaginal orgasm originally came from. ~ Mary Roach

How was it this easy? When had Josephine Somerhall's presence become something he required to find...happiness? Since when did he need to be in her company to find the burden of responsibility temporarily banished, the long-forgotten laughter and carefree joy of living reinstated with a single smile? ~ Kelly Bowen

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in. ~ Josephine Humphreys

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

She heard Rowan awake with a start before he reconciled himself to his surroundings. His back scraped across the trunk of the tree as he slid sideways
trying to see around the branch she was sitting on to get a look at her.
"Are you awake?" he asked, his voice still rough from sleep.
"Yeah."
"Did you sleep at all?"
"No." She heard him mumble something to himself and decided to cut him off before he could scold her again. "My butt did, though. Slept like a log all night."
"Well, obviously, your butt has more sense than you do."
"You're a funny man, Rowan whatever your last name is."
"Fall."
"I'd rather not."
She managed to get a tiny chuckle out of him, which she considered a huge achievement. Rowan stood up on his branch, bringing his head level with Lily's, and started to untie her. His lips were still pursed in a near smile.
"My name is Rowan Fall. ~ Josephine Angelini

You and Tristan are easing into the whole relationship thing, right? Taking it slow?" Juliet asked a little too casually.
"We have sex six time a day, and we're thinking of making a porno together," Lily said, poker-faced, while she rubbed almond oil on her bare legs. She glanced up to see Juliet glaring at her. "Yes! We're taking it slow. Maybe a little too slow. ~ Josephine Angelini

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Character is victory organized. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The shape of his head, the set of his shoulders are a pattern she could recognize and love out of a crowd of shadows. ~ Josephine Humphreys

Funny how quickly the mind moves, but how slowly time does when you're in pain. ~ Josephine Angelini

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter. ~ Josephine Hart

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

In Love, Victory goes to the man who runs away ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

She would have to leave the country, or at least Nantucket, because there was no way she could live down the fact that she had tried to strangle the hottest boy on the island. ~ Josephine Angelini

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an
unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

While she spent her time in correspondence, Laurin spent her free time with Albert.
Neither Laurin nor Albert, or anyone else inside the keep for that matter , could quite understand the appeal that Josephine and Graeme found in writing.
"Do ye plan on marryin ' the man through letters?" Laurin asked when she had returned from the evening meal. "Mayhap ye want to marry him by proxy."
Josephine simply shook her head and smiled as she went back to writing yet another letter to Graeme.
"How will ye consummate yer marriage?" Laurin asked. "Will ye do that by proxy as well?"
Josephine's face burned a brilliant shade of red as she looked away. She was at that moment responding to a question Graeme had posed on that very topic.
Laurin shook her head and threw up her hands in defeat . "I am goin' to bed."
Josephine returned to her letter. ~ Suzan Tisdale

I like honest men of all colors. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished. ~ 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

We should wash our dirty linen at home. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living. ~ Josephine Winslow Johnson

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun. ~ Josephine De Beauharnais

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte