"Top 5 Things Napoleon Never Said" Topic

Things we can be sure that Napoleon never said.

Play ball!

let them eat cake
Engage
Beam me up Scotty

Get thar fustest with the mostest.

Who's your Daddy, Wellington!

I'm wrong!

Game over, man! Game over!

Can i re-roll that, I think it's cocked.

Can you spot me til next week? I'm a little short.

Whenever someone tastes this delicious puff pastry cake I will be remembered.

"Let's make France great again." (June 1812)

"I wish I had more than one Marshal Ney." (June 1815)

"The Guard should really get a +2."

"This Waterloo scenario is tough! What's the difficulty level?"

"I really should trademark that hand-in-the-coat thing."

"Le Poope de Due Due"

"I'll build a wall …"

"More tea, Arthur … ?"

"If I only had just one panzer division … "

"Oooh I love that wonderful moustache of yours grenadier sergeant major … what are you doing tonight?

"Getafix … magic potion … quick! "

I have not had sexual relations with that cannon, miss boomy.

I hope they don't find out I'm really mr Henry Smith from Yorkshire…

You know I've always liked that Blucher guy, can't wait to pet his elephant.

Trust me, vacationing in Russia during the winter is magical!

The British get +1 too?

"Saint Helena is really quite lovely once you get used to it"

"Waterloo… really all my fault. sorry"

"Well as long as no Swedish singers make a catchy tune out of it I'm sure this defeat will be confined to history!"

"Vote for Pedro"

My eyes are up here.

"I'll have the Beef Wellington".

"We're going to build a wall around the British Isle and make the English pay for it." Oh wait, that what the Continental system was…..

"The Bulletins are true! Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, fake news.Total losers."

"You can keep your nine-company battalion organization if you want to."

"If you like your country, you can keep your country!"

I should be modest.

Is this a bricole I see before me…..its handle towards my hand…..

Come on Josaphine ……. jump on lass!!

Russia…..I come in peace……

The continental system robs us of so much good English food exports…

What riflem……..

That General is better than me…

Amicalement
Armand

Constant how do you get this phone app work?

See my blog for why we're invading Russia.
#tyrannicaltsar

I should have stayed in Egypt, then I could have invaded Russia via Turkey.

Who wants to go to Spain when you've already been to Egypt?

My brothers are all great generals and administrators that I can trust without question.

"Here comes Arthur with his wicker basket of deplorables."

"Invasions have consequences."

"Who the heck built this wall around Hougoumont?!?"

Josephine, did you know that they make teeth whitening products?

"You never miss your Waterloo until your Wellington runs dry."

"Able was I ere I saw Elba"?

No no no! Those horses are much too big, my horse grenadiers should be mounted on donkeys!

No, I am your father.

I have a bad feeling about this.

Who's scruffy looking?

It is all proceeding as I have forseen.

Two hundred years from now who will be interested in me and my achievements? I will be forgotten and no-one will post anything on the internet (whatever that is going to be) about my campaigns.

I will be a type of brandy and that will be it…….

"One day son this will all be yours"

"Pass me the bismuth, my ulcer's playing up"

"Do me a favour Josephine! Take a bath!"

"How do I look in my Midshipman's uniform?"

"What's with all these subtitles? And why am I in black and white?"

If my mother could write a civil letter, I'd be something important in the Royal Navy by now.

what Laplace? You can make something called an atom bomb? Now what possible use could I have of that.

"I'd like fries with that"

"A whiff of grapeshot" I've not been able to track down a single French quote that comes even near, it's one of Napoleon's most famous quotes everyone in the English-speaking world knows, but has no equivalent in French. Made up by a writer in the mid-19th century apparently.

It's a very suspect quote, given Napoleon being a trained artillery officer, he would not have said grapeshot, but either "a whiff of light canister" or a whiff of heavy canister.

"Wellington is a pretty cool guy"

"I really admire Prussian cooking"

"I think the Russians should build less roads"

"Definitely move your army to intercept the Prussians and strike the English in their flank, rather than chasing off to Wavre"

Bill and Ted rock!

We're going to need more men.

Are we there yet?

"Why not invade Russia – what's the worst that could happen?"

"Conquering Spain? Piece of cake"

I've read first person accounts of infantry men calling it grape shot, but not an artillery man.

Are the terms distinct in French though?

Sadly, he wouldn't even have been a type of brandy, as that was his nephew rather than him.