Lord Mountbatten Sayings

#1. My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

Lord Mountbatten

#2. I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

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#3. You can divide my life into two.

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#4. Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.

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#5. In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

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#6. Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?

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#7. I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

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#8. The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

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#9. Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

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#10. I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

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#11. I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

Lord Mountbatten

#12. I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

Kevin Keegan

#13. I am much more intelligent than you think.

Lord Mountbatten

#14. Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

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#15. Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.

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#16. I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

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#17. Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.

Jean Aitchison

#18. I have been driven demented in my career.

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#19. The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

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#20. My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

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#21. I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral

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#22. No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

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#23. The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

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#24. Mine was the game where the player cannot lose and may win.

Charlotte Bronte

#25. This is the war I fear.

Lord Mountbatten

#26. Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

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#27. I kind of liked the idea of a universe that always was and always will be.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

#28. It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

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#29. Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

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#30. It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

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#31. Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

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#32. What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

Lord Mountbatten

#33. My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

Lord Mountbatten

#34. Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.

Frederick Lenz