Napolean Quotes

“Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“No use appealing to justice either human or divine.
I suppose they knew no other god than that terrible little Corsicsan.”
― Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

“Like most people of his temperament, though sociable, he (Napolean) disliked company in which he would have to appear merely as one of the crowd, even if not definitely as an inferior”
― William Bolitho, Twelve Against the Gods

“And he loved her—with the exalted and romantic intensity that a social climber gives to a woman whom he thinks superior to his own class.”
― William Bolitho, Twelve Against the Gods

“Napoleon fell into the situation that is the misery of many men of action, and lost the power of enjoying things directly, by himself. It is a weakness, a gustatory impotence which is felt the whole length of the moral ladder, from the saint to the voyeur. It is the secret inspiration of much philanthropy and of much vice; shared by a Napoleon and by the tired cook who has lost her appetite over the stove, and can only get pleasure from the good things she has made vicariously, watching the other eat.”
― William Bolitho, Twelve Against the Gods