Duke of Wellington Quotes
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The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.
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I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.
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A great country ought not to make little wars.
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Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
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My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
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Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
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Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.
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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
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Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
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When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
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It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
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Error is ever the sequence of haste.
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There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
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Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.
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Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.
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There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.
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To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound
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Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
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All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
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I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
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A great country cannot wage a little war.
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My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
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What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
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Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.
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During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"
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God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.
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Yes, about ten minutes.
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Duke of Wellington
- Born: May 1, 1769
- Died: September 14, 1852
- Occupation: Former First Lord of the Treasury
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