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Quotes by Arthur Wellesley

Arthur Wellesley

“Being born in a stable does not make one a horse”

“Publish and be damned”

“The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton”

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

“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.”

“The Lords prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.”

“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.”

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

“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won”

“Habit is ten times nature.”

“To know when to retreat; and to dare to do it.”

“There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry”

“I dont know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.”

“When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out”

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

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

“When my journal appears, many statues must come down.”

“Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.”

“Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.”

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.