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7 Quotes for 'Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)' in the Database.

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 :: Author »  Letter "N" »  Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) Quotes
Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.
Topic: Ancestry
Source: said to the Emperor of Austria, who hoped to trace Napoleon's lineage
Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. [Fr., Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.]
Topic: Eating
Source: Instructions to Abbe de Pradt
I want to the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make make trading much easier.
Topic: Europe
Source: in a letter to his brother Louis
All Italians are plunderers. [It., Gli Italiani tutti ladroni.] Not all but a good part. [It., Non tutti, ma buona parte.]
Topic: Italy
Source: said when in Italy, and the response by a lady who overheard him
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous contemplent.]
Topic: Monuments
Source: said to his army before the Battle of the Pyramids, July 2, 1797
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course. [Fr., Je suis le signet qui marque la page ou la revolution s'est arretee; mais quand je serai mort, elle tournera le feuillet et reprendra sa marche.]
Topic: Revolution
Source: to Count Mole
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. [Fr., Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.]
Topic: Ridicule
Source: to Abbe du Pradt, at Warsaw

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