Arthur Wellesley

“Up, Guards, and at 'em!”

“Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.”

“I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.”

“Our army is composed of the scum of the earth—the mere scum of the earth.”

“There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.”

“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

“Publish and be damned.”

“I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.”

“The government of England is the monarchy.”

“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 guessing what was at the other side of the hill.”

“There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.”

“A great country can have no such thing as a little war.”

“The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.”

“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.”

“I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.”