For a man who was to exhibit such acute political sharpness later in his career, Napoleon completely misread the revolution's opening stages. 'I repeat what I have said to you, ' he wrote to Joseph on July 22, a week after the fall of the Bastille, 'calm will return. In a month, there will no longer be a question of anything. So, if you send me 300 livres [7, 500 francs] I will go to Paris to terminate our business. . Andrew Roberts
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure....
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Graham Greene
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.
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Woody Allen
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.
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Marshall McLuhan
Those who understand will understand.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength
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Jonathan Star
More Quotes By Andrew Roberts
His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.
No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. — Napoleon
I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. — Napoleon
One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".
For a man who was to exhibit such acute political sharpness later in his career, Napoleon completely misread the revolution's opening stages. 'I repeat what I have said to you, ' he wrote to Joseph on July 22, a week after the fall of the...
