Quotes and Sayings by Napoleon Bonaparte
I have compiled a list of quotes and sayings by Napolean Bonaparte.
“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
“Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.”
“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”
“An army marches on its stomach.” This saying by Napolean tells us how astute a GENERAL he was and why he won all those wars. His insights into the workings of war was awesome.
“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.” And of course he was a hopeless Romantic.
“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”
“England is a nation of shopkeepers.” He of course never foresaw that those shopkeepers will mostly be Indians, and chinese.
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” How True.
or :”What is history but a fable agreed upon?”
“Female virtue has been held in suspicion from the beginning of the world, and ever will be.”
“War is the business of barbarians.” But then, wars have been fought and wars will be fought.
He had some distasteful sayings like ,”Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”
But he still was a romantic, “I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth.”
And what is a collection of Napolean Quotes if we don’t have the famous, ” The word impossible is not in my dictionary.”