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

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

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

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'.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

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

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.