Mountbatten Quotes

#1. Thus, both Mountbatten and Nehru stipulated that the ultimate fate of Kashmir should be settled 'by reference to the people', and on 2 November Nehru broadcast on All India Radio that 'we are prepared when peace and law and order have been established to have a referendum'.

Katherine Frank

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

#5. You can divide my life into two.

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

#8. I suffer from the congenital weakness of believing I can do anything.

Louis Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

#13. 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

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

#26. This is the war I fear.

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

#30. My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

Lord Mountbatten

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

Lord Mountbatten

#32. The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe

Louis Mountbatten