01c. 1810 ADNothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.Duke Of Wellington / quote ↗
02c. 1810 ADIt is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.Duke Of Wellington / quote ↗
05c. 1810 ADThere is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.Duke Of Wellington / quote ↗
06c. 1810 ADCall on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.Duke Of Wellington / quote ↗
07c. 1810 ADThe whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill, or, in other words, in learning what we do not know from what we do.Duke Of Wellington / quote ↗
08c. 1810 ADCall on a business man at business times only and on business transact your business and go about your business in order to give him time to finish his busmess.Duke Of Wellington / quote ↗
09c. 1810 ADI don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy but by God they frighten me.Duke Of Wellington / quote ↗
10c. 1810 ADThe whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.Duke Of Wellington / quote ↗