Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dog, Grief, Home

• An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Home, Greatest Love, Three

• What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dirty, Home, Army

  Statement to the Senate, 1814.

• We should wash our dirty linen at home.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dirty, Home, Should

• But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.
  [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dirty, Home, Son

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