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
water
Always make water when you can.
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When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
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Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.
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The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
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Yes, about ten minutes.
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Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
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I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.
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The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
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It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
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Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.
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If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.
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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
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The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.