Napoleaon Bonaparte Quotes

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The best generals are those who have served in the artillery. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Space we can recover, time never. Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821 ~ Robert Greene

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

He is almost a statesman. He lies well. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. ~ 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

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

It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left? ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

You cannot treat with all the world at once. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

We walk faster when we walk alone. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The heart of a statesman should be in his head. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy. ~ 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