Quotes by Lord Mountbatten

• Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.
• My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.
• You can divide my life into two.
• Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
• My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
• Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.
• The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.
• The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
• What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?
• It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.
• My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
• This is the war I fear.
• I am much more intelligent than you think.
• It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.
• No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
• Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
• Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.
• I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
• I have been driven demented in my career.
• I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.
• I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.
• I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
• I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
• In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
• Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.