Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, War, Past

• History is a set of lies agreed upon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Lying, Power, Agree Upon

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• History is written by the winners.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  History, Winner, Written

• Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Witty, Time, Powerful

• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Memories, Writing History

• It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Men, History

• History is a myth that men agree to believe.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Believe, Men, History

• I shall be an Attila to Venice.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Venice, History

• If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Should Have, History, Water

• The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Powerful, History, Enemy

• I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  History, Done, Want

• History is the invention of historians.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  History, Invention, Historian

• A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fate, History, Battle

• History paints the human heart.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Heart, History, Paint

• Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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