Top 100 Wellington's Quotes
#1. Oman's book Wellington's Army is 400 pages in length but just a single page is devoted to the artillery with the opening, 'only a short note is required as to Wellington's use of artillery'. Historians ever since
Nick Lipscombe
#2. Hard work and an open mind - it's the only way to realize the potential that is inside every one of us.
Chrissie Wellington
#3. 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
#4. You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so ... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
Duke Of Wellington
#5. I think, then i pick, and then i stick. and nothing shifts me more from my view. no bad races, no bad sessions, no bad moods.
Chrissie Wellington
#7. No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up.
Joe Bastianich
#8. ...and in Wellington women in the bakery trade were able "to perform certain skilled operations for which they are particularly suited, at rate equivalent to two thirds the journeyman's rate".
Barbara Brookes
#9. I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.
Frank Gifford
#10. We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.
Frank Gifford
#13. The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.
Robert Aris Willmott
#15. The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
Duke Of Wellington
#17. There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
Duke Of Wellington
#18. I try to paint from life, but I had such a miserable experience with Bonaparte, who wouldn't sit still and kept mumbling about catching a cold and something incoherent about Wellington , so I finally decided to work from photos.
Roman Genn
#19. Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.
Duke Of Wellington
#20. Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!!
Napoleon Bonaparte
#21. I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
Wellington Mara
#22. Right then," Campbell began, his tone so civil it was offensive. "May I have your name for the record, Miss ... ?"
"Eliza Braun," Eliza sneered. "Here, I'll spell it for you
B-U-G-G-E-R-O-F-F.
Tee Morris
#23. The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
Wellington Mara
#24. There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman
Chrissie Wellington
#25. 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.
Duke Of Wellington
#27. 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
#28. Contestants, whether it be for an army or a posse, we must be strong. We must face our fears, if only to save me and my worldly possessions. So reapply your lipstick, we're going to the Fearnasium, Mrs. Wellington announced stoically before exiting the dining room.
Gitty Daneshvari
#31. 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
#32. I never go into a race expecting to win, but I do go in expecting to fight.
Chrissie Wellington
#33. Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
Wellington Mara
#35. God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.
Duke Of Wellington
#36. If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.
Charles Sturt
#38. 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.
Duke Of Wellington
#39. Great triumphs of engineering genius - the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail - ... are rather invention than engineering proper.
Arthur Mellen Wellington
#40. I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.
Jemaine Clement
#41. 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'.
Duke Of Wellington
#42. My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington.
Tom Bennett
#43. Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never would.
Susanna Clarke
#44. To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.
Chrissie Wellington
#45. You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
Wellington Mara
#47. I do a mean beef Wellington. Gordon Ramsay's is a phenomenal recipe. But that's a lot of prep. The secret to wrap it in Parma ham before wrapping in pastry. I'm so pro smuggling more meat in.
James Corden
#49. Lord Wellington is in the Lines. It was a very curious phrase and if Strange had been obliged to hazard a guess at its meaning he believed he would have said it was some sort of slang for being drunk.
Susanna Clarke
#50. It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.
Chrissie Wellington
#51. I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.
Duke Of Wellington
#53. An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
Duke Of Wellington
#54. 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.
Duke Of Wellington
#55. Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.
Duke Of Wellington
#56. I wondered whether Mrs. Shears had told the police that I had killed Wellington and whether, when the police found out that she had lied, she would go to prison. Because telling lies about people is called slander.
Mark Haddon
#57. Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.
Chrissie Wellington
#59. Do I pray for her life or mine? They're one in the same ... Be this soul in Thine hands ... I stop, unable to pray for her ascension. I cannot let her go, I think in agony. I try again, May this soul in Thine hands be with me ... always.
Amy A. Bartol
#60. The scum of the earth ... but what fine soldiers we have made them.
Duke Of Wellington
#61. It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.
Chrissie Wellington
#64. One of the highlights of my career was playing first class rugby for my province, which was Wellington. Another highlight was playing first class rugby with my brothers. Not many brothers get to do that. I can't explain what it felt like to be out there, playing with them. It was a great feeling.
Filo Tiatia
#65. Then there's Queen Victoria, like a large tea cosy, & Wellington, sleek as a mastiff with paw extended ...
Virginia Woolf
#66. Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons.
Chrissie Wellington
#68. Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.
David Wellington
#70. The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
Wellington Mara
#71. When Wellington Mara died in 2005, he took a piece of the organization's soul with him - one that fans, players, and staff still miss.
Dave Buscema
#72. I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
Bob Balaban
#73. I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I'm concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.
Johnny Marr
#74. The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
Wellington Webb
#75. To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh and make others laugh. To read more widely. To try to be more tolerant of my weaknesses and of others, and not to be so hard on myself all the time.
Chrissie Wellington
#76. If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
John Keegan
#77. He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.
James Joyce
#78. I run to feel complete, to feel alive, to feel happy, and to feel free. I run to visit beautiful places, to overcome my fears, and to remind myself - and others - that our limits may not be where we think they are.
Chrissie Wellington
#79. He looked right into her and then he said, "In a second I'm going to ask you if you're okay. Your answer is extremely important. If you can keep fighting, or at least keep running, you have to say 'yes'. Otherwise we have to run away and let them win this one. Now. Are you okay?
David Wellington
#80. I'm staunch. If you are lucky enough to be able to play for your country, it seems to make you even prouder of your roots and origins, and to me that's Wellington.
Murray Mexted
#81. The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters.
Chrissie Wellington
#82. This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#84. Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
Wellington Mara
#86. 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.
Duke Of Wellington
#88. It doesn't matter what we choose. It simply matters what we are.
David Wellington
#89. I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself
Duke Of Wellington
#90. If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl.-Martin Luther King
Chrissie Wellington
#91. The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
Duke Of Wellington
#92. We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
Wellington Mara
#93. If Lady Brentmor told the prime minister to jump off a bridge," Fiona had once remarked, "Wellington would meekly ask, 'Which one?
Loretta Chase
#94. Wow. So what was the vampire like?" "Pale. Big. Toothy," the trooper answered.
David Wellington
#96. 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.
Duke Of Wellington
#97. Hey." He glanced away from her, instead looking down at the coffin. He looked back at her and raised his eyebrows. "Want a peek?
David Wellington
#99. Sometimes we call it 'Extra Chunky,' too."
"Why's that?" she finally asked. "Because," DeForrest said, barely able to contain his mirth, "when you run over a hippy with this thing, extra chunky is about all that's left.
David Wellington
#100. But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like
history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.
Orson Scott Card
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