Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Love is a matter of chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life

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.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.

Le mot impossible n'est pas français.

You can ask me for anything you like, except time

Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die

All celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Gentlemen. If you're going to take Vienna, take it.

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

Only give them history books. Men should read nothing else.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

no one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate

From triumph to failure is only one step.

My conscience is the tribunal before which I call my conduct.

I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.