Duke Of Wellington quotes

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

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'.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

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'.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

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.'

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

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'.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.