Josephine Beauharnais Quotes

#1. Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful young men, and money was the only wholesome trait in his character.

J. Christopher Herold

#2. [On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

Josephine De Beauharnais

#3. We've all changed; shaped by circumstances we've been thrust into, molded by the choices we've made.

Siobhan Davis

#4. They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves (p. 223).
Melmouth, of the George Flock in Three Bags Full

Leonie Swann

#5. It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

Joey Santiago

#6. [On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

Josephine De Beauharnais

#7. A letter is the portrait of the soul ...

Josephine De Beauharnais

#8. If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth.

M. Scott Peck

#9. It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.

Paul A. Volcker