They do not apply to me.
I will never consent to frame my conduct by the puerile arrangements of society.' 'Have you no feeling then ?' sobbed the Empress.
'A great man is not made for feeling.

It is for him to decide what he shall do, and then to do it without interference from anyone.

It is your place, Josephine, to submit to all my fancies, and you should think it quite natural that I should allow myself some latitude.' It was a favourite device of the Emperor's, when he was in the wrong upon one point, to turn the conversation round so as to get upon some other one on which he was in the right.

Having worked off the first explosion of his passion he now assumed the offensive, for in argument, as in war, his instinct was always to attack.
'I have been looking over Lenormand's accounts, Josephine,' said he.
'Are you aware how many dresses you have had last year?
You have had a hundred and forty--no less--and many of them cost as much as twenty-five thousand livres.

I am told that you have six hundred dresses in your wardrobes, many of which have hardly ever been used.