Duke of WellingtonWe always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. ✨ Re-enacting Waterloo. www.economist.com. June 16, 2005.371Hope
Duke of WellingtonNext to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. ✨ In Frances, Lady Shelley 'Diary' p. 102362Life
Duke of WellingtonAll 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 sid… ▶363Life
Duke of WellingtonGod deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.342Humanity
Duke of WellingtonOur army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. ✨ Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (ent… ▶332Hope
Duke of WellingtonNext to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.366Sadness
Duke of WellingtonWhen other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.377Reflection
Duke of WellingtonIf you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.358Humor
Duke of WellingtonThe hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.303Death
Duke of WellingtonBe discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.347Sadness
Duke of WellingtonI never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life. ✨ On seeing the first Reformed Parliament, in Sir William Fraser 'Words on Wellington' (1889) p. 12292Life
Duke of WellingtonThe scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.3610Death
Duke of WellingtonHard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.3510Sadness
Duke of WellingtonPublish and be damned. ✨ Attributed in George Bernard Shaw, Mrs.Warren's Profession (1898). This wasWellington's alleged response in 1824 to a blackmail threat from a publis… ▶338HopeReading
Duke of WellingtonThe whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.276Love
Duke of WellingtonThe only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.234Politics
Duke of WellingtonNothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ✨ Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Mar… ▶234Death
Duke of WellingtonEducate men without religion and you make them clever devils.245Reflection
Duke of WellingtonIt is not the business of generals to shoot one another.289Hope
Duke of WellingtonThe only thing I am afraid of is fear. ✨ Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon… ▶258Hope
Duke of WellingtonThe Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.192Hope
Duke of WellingtonThere is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.194Hope
Duke of WellingtonAs 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. ✨ Dispatch to Torrens, 29 August 1… ▶239HopeReading
Duke of WellingtonI don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.195Reflection
Duke of WellingtonAs 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… ▶162Life
Duke of WellingtonWise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.141Humanity
Duke of WellingtonI mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned ✨ Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (2012). Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His … ▶141Life
Duke of WellingtonCall 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.163Time
Duke of WellingtonHabit is ten times nature.153Time
Duke of WellingtonIt 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 i… ▶2210HopeReadingReflection
