Quote: Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: 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. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: Habit is ten times nature. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: When my journal appears, many statues must come down. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: Being born in a stable does not make one a horse. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: 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. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: It is not the business of generals to shoot one another. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: Publish and be damned. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: The only thing I am afraid of is fear. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: 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'. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: A host in himself. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. [Arthur Wellington]
Quote: 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. [Arthur Wellington]