Napoleonic Quotes

#1. Telescopes and bathyscapes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.

Randall Munroe

#2. Every day, we ought to extend kindness to one other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Religions are all living faiths and their essence does not consist in their externals such as rituals, methods of prayer, ceremonies, etc. It rather consist in the inner beliefs and convictions which they carry along with them and which give their followers a distinctive character and way of life.

Kedar Nath Tiwari

#4. From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

David Cameron

#5. Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?

Wilfred Burchett

#7. 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

#8. If you want to know what your child is doing, look at their friends, they wouldn't be friends with them if they weren't doing the same things.

Catie Hartsfield

#9. Let those who are actually concerned with peace observe that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history - a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world - from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

Ayn Rand

#10. No one is entitled to the truth.

E. Howard Hunt

#11. Our lovely Princess Eadlyn,
It's hard to rhyme your name.
And though we really ticked you off,
We love you all the same.

Kiera Cass

#12. I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

Roman Abramovich

#13. I was used to feeling like I was never gonna see myself at the finish line.
Hanging on to parts of me, hanging on at all. I was used to seeing no future in my sight line.

Sara Quin

#14. You don't wallow or mope. You aren't allowed that luxury; guilt is for lesser men. You simply need to do what is expected.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. At the time Latin America was composed only of colonies. We were up against the biggest army of the colonial world, the Napoleonic army. Haiti was ostracized for almost a century. Surviving in that international context is in itself a feat.

Michele Montas

#16. Those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. The Sphinx is missing a nose. Someone shot it off in a moment of idle desecration - some say it was Mameluke Turks, others, Napoleonic soldiers.

Carl Sagan

#18. Don't be content with what you earn, but be content with what you own. Don't allow material things to define who you are.

Bo Sanchez

#19. Always wetweating-always wetweating!

Leo Tolstoy

#20. What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

Naomi Novik

#21. Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.

Billy Campbell

#22. The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English generals were more lavish with their soldiers' lives than were their French and German colleagues.

J. Christopher Herold

#23. If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.

Storm Jameson

#24. There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system convulses. From the Seven Years' War in Europe to the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century to the World Wars, every century has one.

George Friedman

#25. Why ride a cowboy when you can ride a librarian?

Alice Clayton

#26. All is bound by the law of causation

Swami Vivekananda

#27. The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.

Amos Elon

#28. Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.

J. Christopher Herold

#29. Triage on a battlefield (where the word originated in the Napoleonic Wars) came down to three choices: Those that don't need help right now, those that can survive if they get help right now and those that are probably going to die whether they get help or not.

John Ringo

#30. I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

Lauren Willig