I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
Duke of Wellington
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'.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
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.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
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.
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
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.
Publish and be dammed.
Habit is ten times nature.
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.'
When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
