There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.