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

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
Arthur Wellesley

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Arthur Wellesley

Habit is ten times nature.
Arthur Wellesley

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
Arthur Wellesley

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

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
Arthur Wellesley

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Arthur Wellesley

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Arthur Wellesley

Publish and be damned.
Arthur Wellesley


The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Arthur Wellesley

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Arthur Wellesley

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
Arthur Wellesley

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

When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
Arthur Wellesley