Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

A. S. Byatt
- Nature
- Best
- Language
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Samuel Butler
- Power
- Healing
- Medical
It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

Parker Posey
- Up
- Movies
- Building
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Lascelles Abercrombie
- Age
- Reason
- Poetry
Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

Jack Keane
- People
- Security
- Policy
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

Venus Williams
- Perfect
- Play
- Person