Napoleon Quotes - page 5

Golovinski: Mr. Rachkovsky, a Zionist congress met last year. I can simply fabricate a manifesto! Rachkovsky: Not good enough...and that will take too much time! I have a solution! Here is an old book by someone named Maurice Joly. It appeared here in France in 1864... and four years ago our journalist Decyon tried to use it to attack Russia's financial system. Golovinski: The "Dialogue in hell between Machiavelli and Montesquie”! Jolly's book attacks Napoleon III's government! It can be read as a plan for tyranny! Rachkovsky: Exactly. All you have to do is 'change this into a testament that emanates from the Jewish leaders...eh, Golovinski? Golovinski: Ah, yes. A Jewish conspiracy! Yes, yes. (Will Eisner)
Raslovlev: The "protocols” written in 1897 states that the elders decreed the expulsion of all non-Jewish secret societies. Graves: I question that! For in 1851''' Napoleon III, Joly's enemy, banned and imprisoned 26,000 members of secret societies in France...46 years before the "Protocols!”. View quote
Will Eisner
You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing. View quote
Al Madrigal
I'm a little brother. I've always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have. View quote
Chris Paul
When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old. View quote
Jason Reitman
The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them. View quote
Jim Piddock
My first restoration was on Napoleon, trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory. View quote
Kevin Brownlow
'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career. View quote
Efren Ramirez
That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available. View quote
Michael Baden
All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo. View quote
Robert Vaughan
The world's odd tolerance of fighting cropped up again and again in Francis's study of history, particularly ancient history. On Earth, where his remotest forebears lived, a person could be indisputably responsible for the deaths of thousands and still go down in the history books as some sort of great hero. This was before Francis understood the biological inevitability of violence, so he was bewildered. Why, he wanted to know, were the names of Samson, Napoleon, Joan of Arc, Ulysses S. Grant, and Julius Caesar not obscenities, spoken after dark in whispers of revulsion and shame? The same teachers who couldn't bring themselves to say shitbrain or ortwaddle openly discussed Alexander the Great. He never found anyone who had the answer. Until he got to Planet Carlotta, he never even found anyone who had the question. (James K. Morrow)
Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals. View quote
Tina Brown
Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me. View quote
Tom Conti
Goethe, ... who lived through the struggle against Napoleon, was once asked how he had managed to exist during the days of shame, defeat, and humiliation. He replied: "I have nothing to complain of. Like one who, from the fastness of a cliff, gazes down on the raging sea, unable to help the ship-wrecked crew, but also out of the reach of the billows-according to Lucretius, a not unpleasant feeling-I have been standing in security, and have watched the fury of the storm passing by me.” ... It was not only on the political combats and storms of his emasculate fellow-countrymen that Goethe looked down with indifference; to those troubles of the heart, which Rousseau's teaching had quickened, a philanthropic and educational enthusiasm, he was not merely apathetic ; he was positively hostile. ... "As of old Lutherdom, so now French ideals are forcing us away from a peaceful development of culture,” he used to say. View quote
Oscar Levy
At Toulon, Napoleon, looking out of the batteries, drew back a step to let some one take his place. The next moment the new arrived was killed. That step brought the French Empire, and made possible the bloody roll of its victories and defeats. The rout at Waterloo turned on a shower of rain hindering Grouchy's advance. The resolution of a moment, with some men, has been the turning-point of infinite issues to a world. View quote
John Cunningham Geikie
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio. View quote
Arturo Toscanini
I am myself an uncompromising anti-Jingoe, a peace-at-almost-any-price man. Chamberlain is the only Unionist public man whom I have ever thoroughly distrusted. Excepting Napoleon, I believe that England's true greatness has had no such dangerous enemy since Lord North. When a radical, he delighted to dish his colleagues even more than to flout his opponents. He is now engaged in dishing his new colleagues and flouting his old friends. View quote
Alfred Marshall
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China." View quote
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China". It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives. View quote
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
America is far away and protected by the ocean, England could not be reached by Napoleon himself. You are sheltered, both of you; we are not. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys. (Wesley Snipes)
[Stendhal] was small, ugly and obsessed by physical beauty in others, and he spent most of his time in salons and opera houses, pursuing aristocratic hostesses and singers. After the fall of Napoleon, he retired to Italy, adopted his pseudonym and began to write. He was a sexual freebooter who "found a notion of obtaining happiness from a virtuous woman wholly inconceivable.”. View quote
Anthony Burgess
Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Nobody is enjoying the result of civilization created by atheists like Ravana, Kansa, Aurangzeb, Napoleon or Hitler. Everything is in oblivion and this teaches us the lesson that the materialistic plans of the present age will also meet with the same fate after a lapse of 50 years. Therefore blind materialism does not bring in any permanent relief in the world. View quote
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled. View quote
Jon Bon Jovi