Quotes by Arthur Wellesley

• 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.
• The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
• The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
• The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
• The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
• Publish and be damned.
• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
• I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
• Habit is ten times nature.
• Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
• When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
• Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
• It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
• Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.