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Famous Duke of Wellington Quotes
“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”
“I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.”
“The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.”
“Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.”
“We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.”
“I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.”
“The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.”
“Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.”
“A great country cannot wage a little war.”
“If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.”