Famous Quotes / Arthur Wellesley
14 Quotations by Arthur Wellesley
- 1. Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
- 2. Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
- 3. Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
- 4. Habit is ten times nature.
- 5. Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.
- 6. I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.
- 7. Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
- 8. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
- 9. The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
- 10. The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
- 11. The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won.
- 12. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, whic ...
- 13. We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.
- 14. When my journal appears, many statues must come down.