Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

… they seem to be such as would not swear, whore, nor be drunk, but they would lie, cozen and deceive.

Such is human nature, in the gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition, and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

Maniacal self-promoter …. Makes Machiavelli look like a simple, straightforward kinda guy.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth there's hardly any difference.

...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

They [the Republicans] are the most crooked, lying bunch I have ever seen.

… politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

There can scarcely be a more difficult thing than to play a double game. It is dangerous, and it is at times, a nice point to draw the distinction between such a game and dishonor.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

Politics. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

I must say I hate our diplomats. I think with few exceptions they are arrogant humbugs and I expect they know it.

… the most corrupt of all corrupt men.

In my lifetime I have never seen such a volume of deceiving and dissembling.

He’s one of the few men in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Oh Lord. Deliver us from the hypocrisy of talking to sound reasonable while not being reasonable.