Napoleon Russia Quotes

#1. The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

Steven Moffat

#2. Russia had always been an anomaly. Here they were, in the center of the city that had burned down around Napoleon's army, having "traditional" Russian cuisine that had been invented by the French.

Kenneth Eade

#3. I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Joy Fielding

#4. You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.

Cassandra Clare

#5. The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

William Hazlitt

#6. I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.

Ariwara No Narihira

#7. In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. Nothing can block your light. what's for you will be yours even when shade is thrown

Alexandra Elle

#9. Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.

Francis Parkman

#10. Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

John Templeton

#11. Jarah didn't know whether to believe him or not . . . I mean, flying ships . . . ? Tegan giggled. And ships that can go underwater? Everyone would drown!

Katlynn Brooke

#12. All thinking begins with wondering

Socrates

#13. M. de Charlus made no reply and looked as if he had not heard, which was one of his favourite forms of rudeness.

Marcel Proust

#14. What's more difficult than knowing there's an effective treatment for your children, but you can't afford to offer it to them because it's not covered by insurance?

Elizabeth Emken

#15. Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#16. His billiards lessons regarding double kisses, push strokes, butt caps, creeping angles of incidence, and snatches began to sound like flirting.

Jennifer Harrison

#17. The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won the peace.

J. Christopher Herold