Napoleon I of France Quote

There is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.


Napoleon's favourite maxim, quoted in The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William Hodgson (1841), p. 477


There is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

There is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

There is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

There is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.