Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Duke of Wellington
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British public servant Duke of Wellington.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Habit is ten times nature.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
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'.
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Publish and be dammed.
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.
If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.
There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.
The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.
There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
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.
Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
A great country cannot wage a little war.
As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.
Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.
To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself
Yes, about ten minutes.
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.
The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
Error is ever the sequence of haste.
Always make water when you can.
Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.
My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.
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.
You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
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.
The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.
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