Josephine Bonaparte Quotes

“My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.”

“I am afraid, I admit, of the empire he seems to want over all those who surround him.”

“I have not spent a day without loving you; I have not spent a night without clasping you in my arms; I have not drunk a cup of tea without cursing the glory and ambition which keep me from the heart of my very being.”

“Josephine is decidedly old and as she cannot now have any children she is very melancholy about it and tiresome. She fears divorce or even worse.”

“She was a woman in every sense of the word, vivid, vivacious, and so tender-hearted.”

“With the permission of our august and dear husband, I must declare that, having no hope of bearing children who would fulfill the needs of his policies and the interests of France, I am pleased to offer him the greatest proof of attachment and devotion ever offered on this earth.”

“Far from ever finding cause for complaint, I can to the contrary only congratulate myself on the devotion and tenderness of my beloved wife. She has adorned thirteen years of my life; the memory will always remain engraved on my heart.”

“The political future of France is compromised by the want of an heir for the emperor.”