How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If they want peace nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you start to take Vienna.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination rules the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

— Napoleon Bonaparte