Horatio Nelson Quotes
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The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.
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Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
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England expects every man to do his duty
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I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
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A ship's a fool to fight a fort.
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Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
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A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.
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Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.
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In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
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My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
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I have a right to be blind sometimes.
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Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.
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Thank God I have done my duty. Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub. Kiss me, Hardy.
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Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.
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The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.
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To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.
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If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
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I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.
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I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
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Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.
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Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight
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There can be no place for self entirely
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England expects that every man will do his duty.
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What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
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The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
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Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
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Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
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Horatio Nelson
- Born: September 29, 1758
- Died: October 21, 1805
- Occupation: Military Commander
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