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

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

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

The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

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'.

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.