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Paul Johnson Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“Churchill painted because while you do it you can think of nothing else.”
— Paul Johnson, Churchill
Tagged: Life
“The great majority of the early martyrs were Christians of a type which the Church would latter classify as heretic. ”
— Paul Johnson, History of Christianity
Tagged: Martyrdom, Secularism
“What characterized him most of all was the force, flexibility, and constancy of his attention.”
— Paul Johnson, Napoleon: A life
“Napoleon described his mind and work life as a series of drawers. Open one, shut the other.”
— Paul Johnson, Napoleon: A life
Tagged: Life, Productivity
“He had not a good memory for proper names, words and dates, but it was prodigious for facts and localities.”
— Paul Johnson, Napoleon: A life
Tagged: Life
“I felt in his soul a cold steel, I felt in his mind a deep irony against which nothing great or good, even his own destiny, was proof.”
— Paul Johnson, Napoleon: A life
Tagged: Life
“His fellow workmen break down and sink under the burden imposed on them and he supports them without feeling the weight.”
— Paul Johnson, Napoleon: A life
Tagged: Life
“Bonaparte was a man who, when he was in his cradle, had been given by the Good Fairy gifts beyond the imagination of most men. But she had denied him things that most people, however humble, take for granted–the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood, right and wrong.”
— Paul Johnson, Napoleon: A life
Tagged: Life, Sociopath
“It says a lot for [Napoleon's] ebullient self confidence, or maybe for his belief in his destiny; that having failed at one uncongenial end of Europe, he was ready to risk a second front at the other end, which was even less hospital to his methods.”
— Paul Johnson, Napoleon: A life
Tagged: Life, Productivity
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