Napoleon Quotes

• I decided to restore 'Napoleon' after a widescreen festival at the Odeon Leicester Square in 1968. It was run by Richard Arnell and George Dunning, who animated and directed 'Yellow Submarine,' and they'd got their hands on the last scene, the triptychs. They just showed that part, without music and with the projectors misaligned.

  

  Kevin Brownlow
  • Music
  • Napoleon

• 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

• If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Relationship
  • Thanks
  • Napoleon

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Broke
  • Sake
  • 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' 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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