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

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

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'.

I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.

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

Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.

I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself