Top 57 Quotes About Duke Of Wellington
#1. Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to.
Mario Batali
#2. The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
Daniel O'Connell
#3. Oh," said the Duke of Wellington, not much interested, "they are still complaining about that, are they?
Susanna Clarke
#4. After the Battle of Waterloo, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington - who managed to defeat Napoleon by the skin of his teeth - surveyed the blood-soaked cornfields of Belgium and wrote in a letter, "Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.
Chris Pourteau
#5. The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
Benjamin Disraeli
#6. When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
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#7. 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'.
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#10. I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.
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#11. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound
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#13. We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
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#16. God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.
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#17. 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.
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#19. 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.'
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#22. If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.
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#23. I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
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#24. Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
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#25. The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.
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#26. Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
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#27. As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.
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#29. During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, Remember men, you are Portuguese!
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#30. There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory
except a great defeat.
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#32. I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself
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#36. The scum of the earth ... but what fine soldiers we have made them.
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#38. Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.
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#39. I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on
the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.
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#40. An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
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#41. Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. 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.
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#42. The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
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#43. Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.
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#47. I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.
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#48. Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!!
Napoleon Bonaparte
#49. Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.
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#50. There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
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#52. The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
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#56. You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so ... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
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#57. I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.
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