Quotes
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Napoléon : You are the traitor. Stab me in the heart with this. It would be more loyal than anything you've done.
Joseph Fouché : Calm down. Worse things can happen than falling from power. You have been through this once before.
Napoléon : But I rose again. In triumph. Called back by the people.
Joseph Fouché : It only lasted 100 days. Should that be called rising again, or just a last desperate leap?
Napoléon : Get out, Fouche.
Joseph Fouché : Your humble servant, sire... for the next 45 minutes, at which time I shall have to ask you to leave.
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Napoléon : You dare order me to give up my conquests, and to restore the old boundaries? So hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen will have suffered and died for nothing. You are insane. Your emperor is insane.
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Marquis de Caulaincourt : Sire, the Cossacks have entered Paris. The people will agree to any treason to protect the city. They even applauded the Allies' decree demanding your abdication. Abdication under these conditions...
Napoléon : I don't need to read it to know the conditions are unacceptable.
Marquis de Caulaincourt : Unappealing, perhaps, sire, but unacceptable is a word that is no longer in our vocabulary.
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Napoléon : He's doing all he can to isolate me, sending away everyone I care for. I know what he is doing. Once there are no witnesses, he will be free to carry out his... evil deed.
Betzy : What evil deed? The governor is a goose. He's too silly to be as devilish as you think he is.
Napoléon : He wants to kill me, Miss Betsy. By poisoning me in small doses. I don't know how he's doing it, but the fact is... I'm growing weaker every day. At night I have such pains in my stomach, that I have to bite my sheets to keep from screaming. In London, when you hear of my death, remember what I've told you today.
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Napoléon : My real crime in their eyes was overthrowing tradition, not conquering Europe.
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Napoléon : Tell them all that they were wrong about me, that I'm not a monster.
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Napoléon : Perhaps I have been unclear, Metternich. I'm not asking for peace. I'm making it. In fact, I'm imposing it.
Klemens Metternich : I'm afraid France is in no position to impose anything at all, sire.
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Letizia Bonaparte : Our island was too small for you. You found even France too small. You had to make it bigger and bigger.
Napoléon : Not to spread our borders, but to spread our ideas, our love of liberty, our audacity, our youth. That's what I wanted to spread throughout Europe.
Letizia Bonaparte : And Europe didn't want your gift. Or maybe the color of the ribbon you tied was too much the color of blood.
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Napoléon : We cannot let them die for nothing.
Paysanne : They died for you. But you're nothing. You're less than that pile of dung.
Napoléon : You have a right to refuse. If you lend us your horses to pull out our cannons of the mud, their shells will avenge your boys.
Paysanne : What's the use? The enemy is all over France. Everyone says we're finished.
Napoléon : No, no. We're never finished. Never! All France is fighting against the enemy. Your sons gave their life so this country might survive. I'm giving my life for it. And you cannot give up a horse?
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Napoléon : Soldiers! If any one of you wants to kill his emperor, here I am.
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Maréchal Joachim Murat : What are you implying?
Napoléon : I'm not implying. I'm saying it to your face.
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Napoléon : This is another one of your jokes. Weren't you satisfied burning my fingers with candle wax the other day? What a wicked little English girl you are!
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Napoléon : Napoleon Bonaparte, a stowaway? I was crowned emperor and will remain emperor till the end of my life. Abdication or no abdication, I am France, and France doesn't flee in a barrel of cod.
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Napoléon : Countess Walewska. I gave everyone else so much, and they all abandoned me. I refused her the one thing she desired the most, the sovereignty of her beloved Poland, and yet she has come.
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Napoléon : The imperial crown of France will contribute less to my legend than the crown of thorns England forces me to wear now.
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Marquis de Caulaincourt : You have to leave France. But they are granting you sovereignty of the isle of Elba. It's off the coast of Italy.
Napoléon : I know the place. It's a pebble. Napoleon, king of a pebble. Grotesque.
