1st Duke of Wellington quotes

" It has been a damned serious business... Blucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. ... By God! I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there. " # Business # Friends and Friendship # Love

" No, he is not an Irishman. He was born in Ireland; but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse. " # Nationalities and Nationalism

" I believe I forgot to tell you I was made a Duke. " # Aristocracy

" Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me. " # Belief # Age and Aging # Tyranny

" My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. " # Friends and Friendship # Poverty and The Poor # Army and Navy

" The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance. .. " # History and Historians # Change # Friends and Friendship

" Publish and be damned. " # Publishing and Publishers

" 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. " # Government # Love # Duty

" There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake. " # Mistakes

" 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 "guessing what was at the other side of the hill." " # War # Love # Business