We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

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

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.