251 quotes
There is a joy in danger.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
Attributed The Story of World Progress (1922)
An army of sheep, led by a lion, is better than an army of lions, led by a sheep.
Misattributed to Napoleon in Napoleon (1941)
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Misattributed
Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.
Misattributed
Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.
Attributed
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Attributed Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899)
Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours.
Attributed
Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.
Attributed Monarchy or Money Power (1933)
There is no subordination with empty stomachs.
Attributed
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Attributed The Military Quotation Book (2002)
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
Attributed The Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966)
A constitution should be short and obscure.
Misattributed
The future destiny of the child is always the work of his mother. Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Attributed Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town (2004)
If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.
Attributed The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006)
I am the instrument of providence, she will use me as long as I accomplish her designs, then she will break me like a glass.
Attributed
Every soldier carries a Marshal's baton in his knapsack
Misattributed
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.
Attributed
Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever.
Attributed The Story of World Progress (1922)
Give them a whiff of grapeshot.
Misattributed