Mark Twain Quotes

Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think he was the first person to shoot prisoners of war so that he had food for his own army. He was absolutely single-minded but he also obviously had charm. How else could a man like him have come back as he did and have the nation rise to a man!

[Writing about Napoleon Bonaparte:] That infernal creature who is the curse of the human race becomes every day more and more abominable.

[Of Napoleon BonaparteII:] His mind was a kind of extinct sulfur pit.

You should have died when I killed you.

I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.

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

I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

I think we might well ask: How does one destroy his enemy by becoming like him?

[Characterizing Napoleon Bonaparte:] The greatest of destroyers of the human race.

This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible. Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling. Out of respect for my family, I will keep my discussion of the matter there - with God and them. But I certainly offer my deep and sincere apologies to all I have disappointed and let down in any way.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything, I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

You can't punch people in the face, punch people in the face, punch people in the face, and ask them to have tea and crumpets with you and think it's all good. Life doesn't work that way.

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- vampires, my parents, everything. He’d told me my parents lied. I yelled at him for it. He forgave me. He told me vampires were killers. I told him they weren’t, even after one stalked Raquel. He told me Charity was dangerous. I didn’t listen, and she killed Courtney. He told me vampires were treacherous, and did I get the message? Not until my illusions had been destroyed by my parents’ confession.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.