Famous Quotes / Horatio Nelson
16 Quotations by Horatio Nelson
- 1. Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.
- 2. Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his ...
- 3. Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
- 4. Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however ...
- 5. Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own r ...
- 6. Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
- 7. I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
- 8. I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me.
- 9. I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
- 10. If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that ...
- 11. It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be ...
- 12. My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death i ...
- 13. My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for i ...
- 14. Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence a ...
- 15. Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer with ...
- 16. Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight.