Napoleon Quotes

• When you do a film as unique and original as 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it's hard then try to repeat what audiences loved the first time.

  

  Mike Scully
  • Repeat
  • Original
  • Dynamite

• The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torch bearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.

  

  J. Christopher Herold
  • War
  • Revolution
  • Napoleon

• NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Soldier

• It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'

  

  Kevin Brownlow
  • School
  • Revolution
  • Library

• All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

  

  Robert Vaughn
  • Napoleon
  • Basically

• Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Sake
  • Broke
  • Good Name

• 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
  • Life
  • Country
  • Throne

• The idea of 'Napoleon Dynamite' as an animated series made perfect sense to me.

  

  Mike Scully
  • Perfect
  • Series
  • Dynamite

• Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Idea
  • Danger
  • Napoleon

• 'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

  

  Kevin Brownlow
  • Napoleon

• The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Greatness
  • Napoleon

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