Napoleon quotes

Napoleon thinks that I am a fool, but he who laughs last laughs longest.

-Alexander I
  Letter to his sister, 8 Oct.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And myambition has been growing steadily ever since.

- Salvador Dal| 
  The Secret Life of Salvador Dal|,  prologue.

Ex-Professor Moriartyof mathematical celebrity†isthe Napoleon of crime,Watson.

- SirArthur Conan Doyle
  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,'The Final Problem'.

Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  Animal Farm, ch.9.

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers† Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers. See Napoleon 607:68.

- SirTom originally Tom Straussler Stoppard
  Professional Foul.

Like most of those who study history, Napoleon learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

- A(lan) J(ohn) P(ercivale) Taylor
  BBC radio broadcast, 6 Jun.

One of the signs of Napoleon'sgreatnessaccording to a sociologist who recently wrote to our publishing houseis that he once had a publisher shot.

- Siegfried Unseld
  TheAuthor and his Publisher (translated by H and H Hannum,1980), p.1.

Napoleon did not manoeuvre at all. He just moved forward inthe old style, in columns, and was drivenoff in the old style.

- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  Letter to SirWilliam Beresford, 2 Jul.