Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.
I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.
Error is ever the sequence of haste.
As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.