21 Movie Quotes about Napoleon I with Audio

Updated: Jun 22, 2026

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1 Well, c'est la guerre, Napoleon. I guess you can't win 'em all.

Quote from The Aristocats

2 It's like Napoleon. When he was the king, you know, people were constantly trying to conquer him, you know, in the Roman Empire. So it's history repeating itself all over again.

Mark Wahlberg as Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights (1997)

3 Your Grace, Napoleon has ridden within range. May I have permission to try a shot? -Certainly not. Commanders of armies have something better to do than to fire at each other.

Christopher Plummer as Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

4 I'm a student of military history, friend. And overconfident commanders can lose. Nero, Custer, Napoleon. There's room for you in that list, pal.

George Peppard as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith in The A-Team

5 So long, kid. I'm not sore. Every Napoleon has his Waterloo.

Jimmy Durante as Knobby Walsh in Palooka (1934)

6 Mad? Was Hannibal mad? Or Alexander? Surely Napoleon was the maddest of them all. Mad? We shall see, Professor.

Herbert Lom as Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

7 Is it true what they say, that he's a monster? -He eats laurels and drinks blood.

Christopher Plummer as Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

8 I've never seen guns move so smoothly. -He moves his cannons with the lightness of a pistol.

Christopher Plummer as Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

9 By God, that man does war honor.

Christopher Plummer as Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

10 Perhaps the people will let me go as they let him come.

Orson Welles as King Louis XVIII in Waterloo (1970)