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“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”
As quoted in Have You Ever Noticed? : The Wit and Irony of Every Day Life (1985) by Joe Moore
Attributed
Source: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 246
“A constitution should be short and obscure.”
Quoted in The Life of Napoleon I by John Holland Rose as an exchange between Roederer and Talleyrand
Roederer tells us ("Œuvres," vol. iii., p. 428) that he had drawn up two plans of a constitution for the Cisalpine; the one very short and leaving much to the President, the other precise and detailed. He told Talleyrand to advise Bonaparte to adopt the former as it was "short and" — he was about to add "clear" when the diplomatist cut him short with the words, "Yes: short and obscure!"
Misattributed
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Letter from St. Helena (28 August 1817); as quoted in The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud, 1815-1818 : Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napoleon's Captivity (1932) as translated by Norman Edwards, a translation of Journal de Sainte-Hélène 1815-1818 by General Gaspard Gourgaud, t.2, p. 226
“The word impossible is not French.”
Le mot impossible n'est pas français.
Letter to General Jean Le Marois (9 July 1813), quoted in Famous Sayings and their Authors (1906) by Edward Latham, p. 138
Variant translation: You write to me that it is impossible; the word is not French.
Variant attribution: Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
The letter says: "Ce n'est pas possible", m'ecrivez-vous: cela n'est pas français. Original Source http://books.google.es/books?id=TqvSAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA479&dq=correspondance+napoleon+Ier+9+juillet+1813&hl=es&ei=tT3ATqzaNImu8gP01dH9Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Attributed in Monarchy or Money Power (1933), by R. McNair Wilson. No primary source for this is known.
Attributed
Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848)
“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.”
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by Rev. James Wood, p. 567
Attributed
“In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848)
“The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all”
Talks of Napoleon at St. Helena with General Baron Gourgaud, together with the journal kept by Gourgaud on their journey from Waterloo to St Helena (1903), pp. 279–280 http://archive.org/stream/talkofnapoleonat007678mbp#page/n321/mode/2up
Letter to his uncle, Joseph Fesch (June 1791), as quoted in A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the First Napoleon. With Explanatory Notes (1884) edited by D. A. Bingham, Vol. I, p. 24
“A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Act of Abdication (4 April 1814)