Arthur Wellesley Quotes

"When my journal appears, many statues must come down."
- Arthur Wellesley

"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Art, War)

"The only thing I am afraid of is fear."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Fear)

"The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Religion, Morals, Prayer)

"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Battle)

"Publish and be damned."
- Arthur Wellesley

"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Battle, Melancholy, Nothing)

"I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Example, Friends, Hate, Poets, Race, Word)

"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Men, God, Effect, Enemy, Will)

"Habit is ten times nature."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Nature, Habit)

"Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Men, Religion)

"When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Time, Bed)

"Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious."
- Arthur Wellesley

"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Business)

"Being born in a stable does not make one a horse."
- Arthur Wellesley
(Related: Being)