Duke of Wellington
Duke of Wellington
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain. His defeat of Napoléon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 put him in the top rank of Britain's military heroes. In 2002, he was number 14 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPublic Servant
clever men cases
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
crazy enemy care
God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.
mistake has-beens
There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
habit ten
Habit is ten times nature.
scum-of-the-earth history soldier
The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.
believe heart loss
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.
order battle important
Just to show you how little reliance can be placed even on what are supposed the best accounts of a battle, I mention that there are some circumstances mentioned in General -'s account which did not occur as he relates them. It is impossible to say when each important occurrence took place, or in what order.
My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
manners small-talk
I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.
attributes spots battlefields
I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself
funny science technology
I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.
heavy get-over
Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.
rivers house sitting
You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
country government long
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.