Horatio Nelson Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

  Horatio Nelson

  Mistake, Gentleman, Enemy

• What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

  Horatio Nelson

  Country, War, Enemy

• No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

  Horatio Nelson

  Courage, War, Enemy

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

• You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.

  Horatio Nelson

  Kings, War, Men

• Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

  Horatio Nelson

  Kings, Hate, Men

  Horatio Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen (1793) as quoted in "Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., Duke of Bronte, Etc., Etc., Etc, Volume 2" edited by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (p. 580), 1849.

• Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

  Horatio Nelson

  Country, Believe, Forgiving

  Horatio Nelson's statement regarding the attack on Bastia, Corsica (May 3, 1794) as quoted in "The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, with Notes by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Volume I: 1777-1794" edited by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (p. 393), 1845.

• The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

  Horatio Nelson

  Mean, Enemy, Battle

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.443, Cambridge University Press

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