Duke of Wellington Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

  Duke of Wellington

  War, British Soldiers, Facts

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

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, Humorous

• We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

  Duke of Wellington

  War, France, Total War

  "Re-enacting Waterloo". www.economist.com. June 16, 2005.

• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Duke of Wellington

  Peace, War, Battle

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

• Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, History

• The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, Soldier

• A great country cannot wage a little war.

  Duke of Wellington

  Country, War, Littles

  Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (2012). “Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century”, p.377, tredition

• If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

  Duke of Wellington

  Memorial Day, War, One Day

• The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

  Duke of Wellington

  Fear, War, Total War

  Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16

• 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.

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Names, Enemy

  Dispatch to Torrens, 29 August 1810 (usually quoted as 'I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me', and also attributed to George III)

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

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Men, Differences

  Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 2 Nov. 1831)

• The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

  Duke of Wellington

  War

• There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Stupid, Earth

• The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

  Duke of Wellington

  Art, War, Sides

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

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Victory, Battle

• I have seen their backs before.

  Duke of Wellington

  Peace, War

  Attributed to Wellington as a statement to King Louis XVIII at a ball in the spring of 1814,

• 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'.

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Sides, Life Is

  'The Croker Papers' (1885) vol. 3, p. 276

• A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

  Duke of Wellington

  Country, War, Littles

• During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Men, Battle

  "A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal 1996-98". Book by Alec Guinness, 1999.

• A great country ought not to make little wars.

  Duke of Wellington

  Country, War, Littles

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