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.

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

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